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Those who are accustomed to watching fine basketball found much to complain about after Harvard's 67 to 56 victory over Tufts here Saturday night, but the Medford partisans had more occasion for wincing than Crimson fans. And all things considered, it was food to end the 19-game losing...
Harvard's performance in winning was by no means impressive. Its fast-break attack did not function so smoothly or so effectively as it might have, and therefore, the Crimson resorted to more of a control-type game. In addition, Harvard's scoring trailed off at the end of both...
There was more than one encouraging aspect of Harvard's showing. This year's team, even in its first game, made a tremendous improvement over last year's as far as foul and set shooting percentages go. It made 24 baskets in 73 attempts from scrimmage--or 33 per cent...
The second line of Preston, Garrity, and Kittredge stole the show, earning more goals and assists than the other two lines combined. Preston, the center, worked well, producing one goal on a vicious shot in the first period and accounting for two others late in the game with beautiful passes...
The Crimson team was in command all the way, but it never played consistently good hockey for more than a few minutes at a time. This condition might easily be laid to lack of practice and understandable opening game unsteadiness, but another performance of this sort will not beat Boston...