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Poor shooting was one of the two primary factors of the debacle. The other was a six-foot, six-inch center named Jack Underman, whose fine pivot work and sheer size proved too much for his federal defenders. Before he fouled out in the last quarter, the husky Sophomore ace had accounted for 14 of his team's 46 points, enough to make him high scorer of the evening. Runner-up with 12 points was his teammate, Paul Huston, while Wyndol Gray and Saul Mariaschin led the Crimson offense with 11 apiece...
...Champion tied the score at two all, sinking a pair of free throws, the Stahlmen took and held the lead. They had to move fast, however, to keep ahead of the sharpshooting Chelsea five. Using the fast break, peppering the basket from the corners, and working around Decsi's pivot work, the Crimson quintet looked strong in their ninth straight victory...
Though effective in spots, the play of the Stahlmen was generally of the upper bracket high school variety; fast breaks, sharp passes, and accurate shooting were entirely absent. The only elements even resembling Grade A basketball were the work of Lew Desci as pivot man and John Gantt's smooth one hand push shooting from the corners...
...stands, it seemed as if the Stahlen were working only one 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...
...about the map tables at German supreme headquarters the reports must have been coming in like hammer blows to the heart. Now their Italian line collapsed. Two of their last, best armies, driven from the Apennines, were scurrying northward toward the Po River and Lombardy's plains. Bologna, pivot of German resistance, was gone...