Word: fesler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basketball towards its possible initiation as a major sport. Unfortunately, New England and Cambridge, especially, has never been basketball-conscious; neither has Harvard ever seen a good quintet; in the past the turn-out of players has been scanty and -disappointing, enough to discourage even a coach like Fesler. During the last month, however, Harvard has witnessed a stimulating rejuvenation in basketball, making the team a formidable threat to other rivals in the Eastern League and perhaps giving it the right to demand its majority...
Several factors undelie this renaissance in basketball. The excellence of Fesler's coaching ability cannot be exaggerated; through patient training of mediocre material he has improved the standard of Harvard basketball to such a remarkable degree that he has received the attention and praise both of the student body and of the contending teams and coaches. Harvard's re-entrance into the Eastern League in 1934 seemed to be just the spark necessary to start basketball on the upgrade; the squad spirit improved, and more and better men came to Fesler's hands...
Saturday night's game with the Crimson will be the Tiger basketball teams's first league encounter, but despite the fact that the Black and Orange were defeated in two non-league games so far this season, Coach Fesler's quintet is looking forward to a hard fought struggle at Princeton...
...Coach Fesler's quintet Saturday night did not resemble the weak outfits which have worn the Crimson colors in past years despite a 34-31 defeat handed it by a hard playing Pennsylvania basketball team. This was the Crimson's opening encounter in the Eastern Intercollegiate League competition...
...Fesler's reserve quintet finds Herrick at center, Snell and White at guard, and Shirk and Kuhn, who has recently replaced Beckel, at the forward posts. Beckel, however, along with Grondahl will stand ready to replace one of the above men should occasion arise