Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lowell just doesn't have it this year. The whole first team of last year's title squad is gone. The present group pushes its offensive game, often letting the defense slip, and suffers from a lack of height. Red Barry and Archie Southgate are over-eager and inclined to outside shooting. The offense hinges on playmaker Al Turvitz, pivot-man Paul Korpeter, and Chris May, who sparkles under the basket...
...fizzes with belligerence, is deceptively strong (he weighs 172 Ibs.) and amazingly agile; with four years of high-school basketball, 18 months of Army basketball and two years of college play behind him, he has the faultless instincts of a professional. He has speed and endurance and despite his height can take rebounds off the backboard with larcenous regularity...
...there all the way," said Wilson, "if the height disadvantage isn't too much for us." Three of Wilson's key players, guards John Canepa and Dave Heller, and forward Forrest Hansen, are under the six foot mark...
Eliot's B League team handed a similar defeat to Adams, 25 to 24, although Adams led by a point at the half. Harry Guild and Lyman Hall had the height that gave the Elephants control of the backboards through most of the low scoring game...
Winthrop's B League team set a new team mark when it piled up 83 points against Dudley's 12. Against the height of the Puritans, the 26 points of Ted Albert, 18 of By Atwood, and 17 of Art Siegal, the Commuter quintet never had a chance...