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...basic basketball facts. But unlike Stahl, who found himself graced with one of the country's aces in Wyndol Gray, the Coach finds himself with a group of men who, although good material, present he outstanding star to hold the team together. Stress will therefore be on ballhandling, layup shots, and close plays, instead of the more individualistic floor shooting and fancy dribbling that featured last year's five...
...play, and using it over and over. Mariaschin would take the ball out, feed it to Champion, who would give it to Gray or Desci waiting in the bucket. From there it was pot luck, as the pivot man fed the ball to his forwards coming in for the layup. On these shots the Varsity had a deadly average of 100 percent: they missed them...
...passed, and decided finally to press Yale in the backcourt. These tactics paid off, the Blue not having learned how to bring the ball up against such an apparently new device, and Frank Bixler dunked two fouls. Hugh Hyde slipped in for a basket. Mike Keene converted a layup--all within fifty seconds. But the Crimson five was still three points behind, and Jack Torgan's long-range effort as the final gun sounded still left Harvard a point behind...
With Bud Palmer setting the pace, the Tigers ran the count to 21-13 at half time. A foul by Dean Hennessey and a layup by Hugh Hyde in the last minute of the half, helped close the gap. Frank Bixler, who led the Harvard scoring with 10 points, started a brief Crimson rally in the second half after the Tigers had widened their advantage to 26-14. Bixler sandwiched three layup shots between a pair of fouls by Hyde and Dan Shields, but Palmer and his mates applied the pressure once again...
Using a zone defense, Lawrence was able to keep the Freshmen from scoring any layup shots, but it collapsed under Lubchansky's accurate sniping from the side during the second period...