Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall and reasonably fast Boston University quintet appears at the Blockhouse at 8:45 p.m. tonight, as Norm Shepard tries to make it two in a row. Shepard's varsity beat Tufts 67 to 56 Saturday, but he expects the Terriers to put up much more of a fight...
Nice under-the-backboard work by Ed Smith and John Rockwell was the strong point of the Tufts game, but the varsity often lacked the speed necessary to play Shepard-brand fast-break ball. Its shooting from the outside was also weak. Shepard has accordingly pushed fast Jim Gabler up to the guard spot in the starting lineup. Under Shepard's system there will be three guards and two centers...
...Fast-Break...
Coach Vince Cronin's BU features a tall center, Marty Finnegan, and plays fast-break ball along Shepard's own lines. On the basis of previous work, the teams rate evenly: the Terriers easily beat MIT last Saturday, but Shepard's squad has trimmed the Engineers twice in preseason scrimmages. BU has a set-shot artist in captain Joe Sheehan, and guard Ken Rickson is also accurate from the outside...
...more minutes of frantic hockey passed before BU coach Harry Cleverly decided to pull a fast one. He put on his first line against Harvard's third. For 30 seconds they put a sustained rush on the Crimson goal, and then wing Carl Timpson grabbed the puck at his own blue line and took a shot from 20 feet out at the BU cage. DiBlasio was in perfect position for the rebound and scored the final goal...