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...first five minutes of last week's game it was nip & tuck. Then, when the score reached gall, Minneapolis spurted ahead. Two of its big guns-Mikan and Vern Mikkelsen-were seesawing the Trotters dizzy from a double pivot. At the half, Minneapolis was breezing along in front, 40-29. Although the Globetrotters put two and sometimes three men on Mikan, they could not stop the big fellow, and loose-jointed "Sweetwater" Clifton, the Trotters' pivotman center, fouled out trying...
...outside game figured heavily in the varsity's loss, but one of the big factors last night was the slump of the usually high scoring John Rockwell, who collected only three points. With Rockwell having an off night, Coach Frank Cappon was able to concentrate his defenses against pivot-men Ed Smith and Bill Prior...
Penn Coach Howie Dallmar, who has been juggling his lineup all season, still has his set shot ace, six foot five Paul Fitzpatrick, and key pivot man, Captain Bill Harmon benched with injuries. Dallmar will probably rely on his lanky center Herb Lyons, who has been averaging 16 points, to lead the Penn attack...
...Indians improved defense still failed to stymie completely the Crimson's weaving fast-break attack. Ed Smith poured in seven baskets, mostly on his hook shot, from his pivot position, and Rockwell, despite Rowe and later McDonald hovering over him, dropped in five...
Coach Roy Greene's two-platoon squad is loaded with speedsters and six foot pivot men. Hilary Chollet and Paul Lansaw, last year's high scorers, are missing from the Cornell lineup this season, but Greene has replaced them with a couple of six foot four sophomores, Fred Eydt and John Werner, Key man in Greene's attack is center Walt Ashbaugh, one of the fastest men in the EIBL...