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Coach Norman Shepard lifts the lid on his first Harvard basketball team, and opens the local season as well, at 8:45 p.m. tonight when an equally untested Tufts five trots onto the Blockhouse floor...
...Shepard is concerned, tonight's is the most important game on his schedule. This is what he told his squad yesterday as it completed eight weeks of practice under Shepard's fast-break style. At the close of yesterday's workout, the coach said, "My team will be fine as far as condition and morale go, and it will play to the best of its abilities...
...late change may send Jim Gabler to guard in the place of Crosby. Shepard plans to dress 15 men for the games, and, in addition to the starting five, at least three of them--Gabler, Aaron Cohodes, and Gerry Murphy--are likely to see considerable service...
...Shepard has been teaching his men fundamentals, methodically recording the progress of each member of his 21-man squad. "I grade 'em all just like a professor would," drawls the former Davidson College coach. "They've been showing a lot of improvement...
None of the positions are fixed as yet, Shepard emphasizes, and he expects to make further changes as game experience affects his team. He feels that his charges stack up quite a bit better than his Davidson squads, but points out that he has "a lot more material to draw on in a school this size...