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Easy Ed Macauley, 20, the best college basketball player in sight this season, seems part giraffe and part gazelle. Deadly with his one-armed hook shots, he is even better on defense. Against Holy Cross, he held talented George Kaftan scoreless from the floor; for one period he did the same thing to Kentucky's great Alex Groza. To opponents, his nonchalance is frustrating. In the Canisius game, the enemy's pivot man tried guarding Ed too closely. Result: the Canisius star wound up on the bench in tears, out of the game on personal fouls with...
Three of the five Crusaders who will play tonight, George Kaftan, Joe Mullaney, and Dermie O'Connell, will be starting against Harvard for the fourth straight season. They helped hand Wyndol Gray's NCAA team its only regulation defeat in 1945-46, flogged Saul Mariaschin's 1946-47 group 61-40, and outlasted George Hauptfuhrer & Co. last year...
...Kaftan, an all-American center last season, still fluffs in a lot of rebounds. But the fair-haired boy now is all-American Bob Cousy, a junior...
...Crimson, Coach Barclay will send out center Bill Prior and Johnny Rockwell together up front along with Pete Petrillo. Chip Gannon and Dick Covey will start at the guards. "Prior will cover Kaftan," Barclay hopefully reported yesterday, "and either Gannon or Covey will guard Cousy...
...opener at the Garden a speedy dead-eyed Colgate quintet came within 17 seconds of upsetting the mighty Holy Cross. George Kaftan dropped in five points in the last 20 seconds of play to turn a 62 to 60 Colgate lead into a 65 to 62 victory for the Crusaders...