Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wade C. Thompson, instructor in English, stood before movie cameramen, national pressmen, and a crowd of 700 rambunctious students to support his thesis that "the anti-intellectual game is choked with cliches, sentimental mush, and too much sanctity...
...answer to a question, Thompson was forced to admit that his petition to abolish the game and his Strategy Committee were indeed flctitious. Sweating but still emphatic after a two-hour dedate, he told the CRIMSON, "This is the end. I just wanted to start the controversy and point out the over-emphasized sanctity of the game at Brown. Someone else may carry the ball." Upon congratulating his opponent, Thompson was told by Mackessey, "Carry on, Wade...
Occasionally the Crimson's shotmaking was brilliant, as in the second Yale game (41 per cent). But more often it was just plain lousy, largely because no more than one-fourth of the varsity's attempts came from inside the foul circle. The team average on the year from the floor was a paltry 33.5 per cent, compared to the opponents' 38.3 per cent, a very significant difference...
Named to the All-Ivy second team (in what amounts to a victory for the Dartmouth publicity office), Harrington led the team with a 14.5 average, but hit for 17.8 points a game in Ivy play, making him fourth highest in the League. That Dartmouth's Chuck Kaufman was named to the first team over both him and Cornell's Lou Jordan, the League's leading scorer, is simply an inaccurate appraisal...
Easily the most improved man on the squad was McClellan, who averaged 8.4 points and 10.5 rebounds a game. His 17 markers in the first Penn game led a varsity comeback, and his generally satisfactory performances throughout the year certainly pointed out his improvement...