Word: fesler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Dartmouth still leads the league with seven wins against two losses, while Harvard has five victories and three defeats. By triumphing over Columbia tonight and then tripping Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth, Coach Wes Fesler's quint can at least tie and perhaps top the Indian in the circuit standings...
True to Coach Wes Fesler's pre-season prediction, the 1937-38 Varsity basketball team is much better than last year's. While Fesler was hesitant in prophecying a more successful league season for his charges than the quintet that a year ago had six victories against as many setbacks, it is almost certain that this year's team will more than equal that record...
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...
...watch him closely with the result that Lowman's effectiveness dropped rapidly and at present he is far from top form. Due to his early season shooting, Lowman has a total second only to Herrick with 107 points, to these, 43 were made in league competition. At present Fesler has been replacing Lowman with either Arnie Litman or Fred Heckel until he breaks out of his slump...
while reserves remain a problem for Fesler, the showing of Heckel and Litman, in particular, in relief role has dispelled much of the coach's worry about replacing his regulars. Both are erratic, but when inserted in the lineup are of great benefit, if only for enlivening the entire team by their freshness. Heckel sometimes goes in at guard along with the dependable John Dampeer and Dick Wills...