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Captain Carmack and Knaess have rivalled each other in scoring honors. The latter was used at center early in the season but the Penn. coach shifted him to forward in order to make the most of his scoring powers. Dessen is the center of a stubborn five-man defense which has kept opposing scores low all the year...
...first overtime period was scoreless for three minutes until Edes put Hebron ahead by tallying a single point on a free throw. The Crimson could not break through the visitors' five-man defense, but with less than half a minute to go, Crane fouled Leekley, giving the latter two shots with the outcome of the game hinging upon his success. He dropped the first cleanly through the hoop, tying the score. The second, which would bring victory, struck the iron, wavered on the edge, and dropped outside the net, making a second extra period necessary...
Employing a bewildering short passing attack and a tenacious five-man defense, Columbia's stellar basketball team, Intercollegiate League leaders, triumphed over the University five last night 28 to 22. It was the Crimson's first reverse of the season after five straight victories...
...going to work. It speeds up the game, helps to eliminate roughness, and makes the development of the passing attack necessary. The big point in its favor is that it will do away with the importance of the foul-shooting specialist. Basketball was always supposed to be a five-man game. But what happened? An expert foul-shooter became the deciding factor in every close contest. For example, Captain Cullen of Dartmouth scored 23 points out of a possible 25 in the Harvard-Dartmouth game last winter. A game in which half of a team's points can be scored...
Starting practice on November 27 with a squad of 28 players, Coach Chase stressed the fundamentals of the game. The principle of the five-man defense and the four-man offense were mastered, with practice consisting mainly in continued short passing and only short shots at the basket. After the defeat by Tilton in the opening game of the season, the Crimson won from the Boston Y. M. C. A. team and followed that by overwhelming the M. I. T. Freshmen...