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...Dartmouth lineup: Koester, le; Ramboor, lt; Craemer, lg; Vesperini, c; Athans, rg; Empringham, rt; Dey, re; Biggs, qb; Teevens, rhb; Frohner, lhb; Keaney...
Last week, with the basketball season nearly half gone, Keaney's firehouse gang was one of a dozen major U.S. college teams (out of more than 400) still unbeaten.* They ran past bewildered New Hampshire, 88-64. Then they went after Maine. Sixty-two-year-old Coach Keaney was as much a part of the show as his team...
Voice from the Widely Bimps. When he isn't exploding all over the basketball court, Frank Keaney is a good-natured Irishman who saves old glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples...
...current crop of basketballers are mostly freshmen, small and inexperienced. The star of the team is 5 ft.11 in. Center Jack Allen, a superb dribbler and a deadly shot from just beyond the foul circle. In most of the other positions, Keaney keeps shuttling substitutes in & out with instructions to run until they tire, then signal for relief. By this simple method, which has proved effective in Keaney's 27 years at R.I. State, his fast little men recently trampled powerful St. John's in New York's Madison Square Garden...
...Keaney disagrees with people who tell him he has a super-duper basketball squad. Says he solemnly: "They're going to get their ears knocked off." He doesn't think any of them compare with two of his former basketball All-Americans-Ernie Calverley and Stanley "Stutz" Modzelewski. But if Rhode Island gets past dangerous St. Joseph's in Philadelphia this week, they may be on the way to an undefeated season...