Word: shepards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Norm Shepard plans to start his five best scorers tonight and just hope that they can hold the Tufts quintet on defense. Captain Dick Lionette will play center with Harry Sacks and Bill Dennis at the forwards and Paul Shaw and Ed Krinsky at the guards. This is the team which has started most of the Crimson's games...
Tufts this year has almost the same team which trimmed the Crimson last season, 79 to 76, in an exciting game in the I.A.B. The fast-breaking Jumbos take a lot more shots than the average team and have a well-balanced scoring threat, according to Crimson Coach Norm Shepard. They are led by 6'4" center Bob Sussenberger and 6'3" forward John Heneghan, who scored the winning basket in last year's victory over the Crimson...
...other rule has helped," Shepard continued, referring to the rule which gives two shots for all fouls in the closing minutes of play...
Heaward Hobsen, Yale basketball coach, whose team will also be left off the list of the select ten, has a solution to the problem that Shepard likes. Hobsen suggested widening the foul lanes to twelve feet. This would cut down a lot of the fouling committed during scrambles for rebounds, but Shepard likes another aspect...
...would move the big man out from around the basket, and thus put less emphasis on him. Shepard feels that too much stress has been placed on the big man, and the game, consequently, has slowed down. He would rather see a faster game, with the big man just one of five players...