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...aggressive style of recruiting is new to the Harvard basketball program. In the pre-Harrison era, if a high school hoopster displayed the initiative to come to Harvard for an interview, he could probably meet the coach and some of the players. If he ware lucky, he might get a tour...
Individually, basketball star Chris Gallagher ranks third in the Ivy League in rebounds (11.2) and seventh in scoring (16.0). Bob Kanuth is the only other hoopster averaging in double figures according to scoring statistics released this week...
...Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse) hinges on that old story of campus comedy, the Big Game in Jeopardy. According to its boosters, Custer College has "higher scholastic standards, a better basketball team, and a lower rate of pregnancy" than any little coed college in the Midwest. The haloed hoopster of the basketball team, a stilt-high science major named Ray Blent (played with engaging cyclonic dis-coordination by Robert Elston), is in love with the pert, bouncy girl cheerleader (Nina Wilcox). When $1,500 in fix money is anonymously planted in his overcoat, visions of marrying his sugarplum dance momentarily...
...Regular hoopster practice sessions will be inaugurated on Monday following the Thanksgiving weekend, Samborski said, and two games per week for each team will be scheduled, starting two weeks later. The season will include two weeks before Christmas, one week before final exams, and five weeks thereafter...
Dick Eckert and Harry Poole, who pull Harvard's basketball strings, managerially speaking, adopt a middle-of-the-road attitude. Eckert sometimes has semi-fanatical tendencies, being a hoopster of no mean proportions himself, and has been known at times to grow irate when his worthies have been blasphemed by local college journals, but Dick is more prone to tend efficiently to his duties, as is Harry. And God help the opposing manager who tries to jockey with the time clock. When the Harvard five went out west this winter, it was Eckert who wrote the stories for local papers...