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...dwindling), rusty screen doors would slam, assorted mongrels would bark melancholy farewells, bicycle chains would strain and rattle. The great morning migration was under way. Jack and Richard would roll out on the level street, and maybe Gilbert would glide over from the next block with his longhorn handlebars and mud flaps. The caravan would pick up speed and conviviality as the wind opened eyes and mouths. Wayne, Eddie and Jimmy might fall in line just west of the town square, and by the time the boys were skirting the sagging remains of the tin livery stable they were...
Three days earlier, the hoopsters never even got close as a young Texas squad trounced them, 73-58, in Austin, Tex Harvard remained in contention through the first half and part of the second annul McLaughlin benched Dixon after his fourth foul. A Longhorn scoring spree put the game out of reach...
Much has changed since last year's thriller Abe Lemons, the Longhorns' eminently quotable coach, got the boot, and Bob Weltlich took over the helm Junior forward Bill Wendlandr who did not play last year leads Longhorn scorers with an 18-3 point average...
...turned out, Rosovsky's concern was a bit premature. After the Longhorn's Jack Wornington converted the front end of a one-and-one opportunity to give Texas a 61-59 lead, Crimson point guard Calvin Dixon hit the season's most exciting 20-ft. banked jumpshot at the buzzer, and the game went into overtime...
...chatter among the Longhorn partisans about taking on a bunch of Ivy League intellects? "Naw, I don't hype any game anyway, not whether it's Texas A&M, Arkansas, Houston or Harvard." And what's more, he was quick to point out, Texas may have 48,000 students, "but you still need a 1200 on your boards to get in, whatever that may mean to folks up here...