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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Four of BU's starting quintet played against Bill Barclay's hapless varsity in the Arena last year. The Terriers took that game 62 to 55. Coach Cronin has added a fast sophomore to this year's squad, a shifty forward named Charlie Carson...
...Harvard's goals came on perfectly executed pass plays. The defense checked back rapidly and body-checked savagely. There was none of the bunching and collisioning that marred the MIT game; the only people that got hit were the boys from BU, and when they got hit, they got hit hard...
Hugh Nawn played the closest match for Harvard by forcing Frank Street, recent winner of the Young Men's Christian Association Tournament and sixth ranking player in the state, to the full five game match...
Some thought that inter-sectional games were extremely desirable both as a means of establishing friendly contact between Universities and as a means of comparing the caliber of football played in different leagues. People of this opinion, as opposed to those who thought that as far as Harvard was concerned inter-sectional football was "pure suicide", felt that Harvard was over-hasty in abolishing this phase of the game merely on the basis of what happened against Stanford this fall...