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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Individual scoring means little in the Fesler system which depends on fast, clever ball-handling working in toward the basket. Sudden breaks by one of the forwards provide the scoring punch, with tall John Herrick stationed under the basket to tip in any shot that misses he center of the rim. When the players have the "eye", the system is unbeatable. In the same way, a great deal of the team's success depends on whether Herrick has the touch to bat the ball...
Hatch of Springfield turns in a creditable performance in the backstroke and ought to keep "Pop" Cummin pushing along. But his time of 1:45 is not fast enough to cause any headaches for Coach Hal Ulen...
...used a special fast camera of a type previously used by Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, ingenious lightning observer of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Some years ago Dr. Schonland found that in a typical lightning flash a "leader stroke" starts from a negatively charged cloud toward the positively charged earth. The leader comes down by steps, dying out after each step, diving about 200 ft. farther with the next. Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader...
Austie Harding opened the play for Harvard with a long, lopping shot at 2.45, and play continued fast for the first eight minutes with both squads very evenly matched, and Johnson made several lovely saves before the tricolor knotted the count near the end of the period...
...until the last five minutes did Queens step out with two more goals to sew up their victory. The play was fast and furious, with the Crimson at times slightly bewildered by the International rules. Both goalies were outstanding, being the hardest worked...