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...Tony Lavelli, Yale's All-America 1948, 49 basketball star who turned down several pro offers in order to get on with his career as musician and composer, finally signed up with the Boston Celtics at $15,000 a season when they wrote an unusual clause into his contract: between halves he will be allowed to play his accordion for the customers...
Yale star Tony Lavelli will serve as referee at the game...
This season eager Yale undergraduates and townspeople have crammed Payne Whitney gym to watch slender, 6 ft. 3 Tony Lavelli shoot baskets. He was as far from the old "Pudge" Heffelfinger mold in Yale athletes as was tiny footballer Albie Booth. For one thing, he was apt to be shy in a crowd; for another, what he really wanted to be was a musician. A competent piano and accordion player already, he hopes "to pick up some day in the musical comedy composing field where Cole Porter and Irving Berlin leave off." But with his long fingers Tony Lavelli could...
Princeton Could Learn. In desperation, rival coaches assigned two and sometimes three men to stop him. It was seldom enough.. The night that Princeton made the mistake of putting only one man on him, Lavelli scored 40 points (next time Princeton switched its defense, put two men on Tony and upset Yale 47-45). When Williams tried guarding him with one man, he racked up 52. No one had so completely mastered the one-handed hook shot, flipped while taking a stride away from the basket, as Tony Lavelli. His detractors pointed out that he was slow afoot...
...rely solely on his trusty hook shot. He moved for the corners, tossed high-arching one-handed push shots, personally collected 32 points as Yale won, 71-55. As his last point of the game swished through the hoop on a free throw, a big cheer rocked the gym. Lavelli had made his 1,870th point as a Yale basketballer-just enough to tie the major college scoring mark set by the great George Mikan (TIME, Feb. 14) at De Paul University...