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...Coach Wes Fesler feared, the Crimson suffered a decided letdown, but the weakness of the Tech team enabled Harvard to coast along without ever being on the short end of the score. The chief feature of the play of both sides was the sloppy and careless passing which often messed up scoring bids. The Crimson hoopsters were particularly hindered by the small size of the Tech floor...
However, throughout the season, Coach Wes Fesler has had great difficulty in getting his team to play their best basketball in non-league games, and the game tonight may prove to be an upset...
...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...