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Undiscouraged by the varsity basketball team's 18-point opening game loss to Newport Officers' Candidate School, Coach Norm Shepard confidently expects to defeat Wesleyan at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the I.A.B. The Crimson trounced the Cardinals, 69 to 55, last year at Middletown, and figures to do as well this year, since the Wesleyan team has virtually the same squad back...
...this is the first time that they (the National Basketball Rules Committee) have ever fooled around with the beginning and middle of the game," he continued. "We've had three scrimmages under the rule, and I can't see any difference in the number of fouls," Shepard added. "Of course, the boys haven't been playing much and they still play like it was last year--maybe by the middle of the season they'll be used to the rule, and won't foul so much...
...probably make for a high scoring game," he said. "After all, the boys can't help themselves on a lot of these fouls, and when you give the shooter two chances, he should make one. I can't tell if it's a good rule yet," Shepard said, smiling, "but if it keeps down the fouling it will...
...Shepard glanced at the freshmen scrambling for a loose ball, nodded, and said, "But I'll tell you what is a good rule--the one that makes all fouls automatically two shots in the last three minutes. In our three games it cut down a lot of that last minute wrestling and turned it back to basketball. It's a good thing to cut out some of that rough stuff...
...Shepard, whose 1924 basketball team in the days of low scoring games was the Basketball Team of the Year, started to leave, saying, "They can't waive a foul any more and you probably won't see many deep freezes any more...