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...only secret of her success. The real trick: "to keep the ball in play," i.e., out of trouble. Babe keeps out of trouble with a fluid swing ("practice, practice, practice") which requires "a stamp of the left foot" to get the arms and body into the pivot...
Norm Shepard may start sophomore Dick Lionette instead of John Stevenson at the other forward. Lionette, who scored seven field-goals and two fouls in the team's last game, would play the pivot position while Captain Ed Smith would follow the ball on the outside...
...Crimson was foiled in the first half by a tight Cornell defense. Captain Ed Smith, guarded by from two to four opposing players, was almost helpless in the pivot. Only the shooting of Jim Gabler, who scored nine points, kept the Crimson in the game during the first 20 minutes...
...until the final period could the Crimson defense cope with the Dartmouth attack led by first-line center Captain Cliff Harrison, who scored two of the Green's goals. Mike Choukas, pivot on the second line, also tallied twice...
...grad-school spectators yelled anyway, because the four-man-plus team looked like champions for the first time this season. Holman threw a slow, deliberate offense at the Crusaders, in contrast to the usual fast-breaking Beaver style. With Romar and Warner alternating in the pivot, Holman's plays constantly drew the shifting man-to-man front line of defense out of position. The Crusaders had far more trouble with Holmans tight three-two zone. But the short of its was--the starting four lasted...