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Once again Bill Hickey, Bill Borah, John Stevenson, Jim Downey, and Jerry Murphy started for the '52 squad, but before the evening's activities ended Harper employed at least four different combinations. Every one of them clicked...
...usual the starting lineup will be composed of captain Bill Hickey and Bill Borah at the forwards, Jerry Murphy and Bill Downey at the guards, and John Stevenson at center. On the offense Murphy and Downey switch to forward to utilize their height...
Coach Lloyd Harper thinks "they're a mighty fine bunch of boys," and he thinks so because his players have done wonders with their physical potentialities. Harper has only one really rugged man on his team--Captain Bill Hickey. Hickey, to use an old cliche, is the sparkplug of the '52 quintet. He starts most of the plays, makes accurate, quick passes, and on defense keeps the nerves of the opposition well frazzled...
Mutt & Jeff. St. Louis began shooting L.I.U.'s zone full of holes with speed and fancy fingertip passing. On the bench sat tough, little (5 ft. 6 in.) Ed Hickey, once a practicing lawyer, now the brain of the Billikens. Coach Hickey wasn't nervous (he said). Always at close hand was his briefcase, crammed with diagrammed plays, notes and scouting reports. The other man who made the Billikens go was towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Charles Edward...
Ripples & Barrel Rolls. Two years ago, when Hickey first came to St. Louis U., he inherited a team of St. Louis boys (all his first-team men this year are local products). Then he taught them his basketball axiom: "It is a game of a million situations." He kept a piece of chalk handy and was forever getting on one knee to sketch new situations on the floor. His basic offense was a fast break that could evolve into a ripple of finger-tip passes that he called a Barrel Roll, or "a million" other combinations. Men like Macauley...