Word: guards
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...basket range the moment he has a teammate to screen for him. Fast for a big man, he follows his shots to the basket, is considered the league's best offensive rebounder. With an ever-improving sense of timing, his defensive play is now much better. Assigned to guard Detroit's towering (7 ft.) Walt Dukes last week, Pettit held him to just 2 points (while he scored 24 himself), out-rebounded the tree-tall Dukes...
...Glynn gave Yale a 45-39 lead at the outset of the second stanza, but with Harrington showing the way, the varsity came back to go ahead, 51 to 48, at the 4:40 mark. Bombing away from up to 35 feet, the 5 ft., 7 in. guard hit three quickies to bring the Crimson within one point, and then Captain Bob Repetto scored on a jump shot and a hook off Downs for the lead points...
Yale's third scoring threat is forward Dan McFadden, who tallied 20 markers against the Crimson. At guard, coach Joe Vancisin will probably start Alki Scopelitis and Tom Molumphy, who did an outstanding defensive job against George Harrington...
With a League average of 17 points, Harrington can vault into third place in the Ivy scoring race with a 35 point total. The pint-sized guard is not incapable of such an effort...
Died. Daniel Alden Reed, 83, Old Guard Republican Congressman from upstate New York, senior member and onetime chairman (1953-54) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, foe of foreign aid, believer in high tariffs and low taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas...