Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plagued by lack of experienced players and woefully insufficient court facilities--the same problems that faced him in the squash season--tennis coach Jack Barnaby '32 must start from scratch in moulding his 1947 team. With no organized nucleus of talent from last year to from the basis of his squad, he is faced with the problem of picking a starting lineup from more than 200 candidates now working out at the Indoor Athletic Building before the opening matches in Easter vacation...
...game into the College's third-ranking major sport came last week with Coach Bill Barclay's announcement that basketball's first spring practice would begin shortly after the season's close. These sessions will be by invitation only, to compete as little as possible with the spring talent search conducted by Harlow and the spring sports. None the less, they were hailed by Barclay as a welcome opportunity to drill up-and-coming Freshman, Jayvee, and Varsity players in fundamentals, laying the groundwork for a consistently superior brand of basketball in years to come...
...expected return of Mariaschin, Page, Davis, and Clark, plus the coming of center George Hauptfuhrer, predicted a capable club for 1946-47, whole the intense interest in basketball showed by New England high schools in recent years pointed toward an increasing influx of local hoop talent into the College halls. Raw material would not be lacking, but raw material alone does not make a ball club. The search for a good coach began...
...better basketball, scoured the country, and came up with William L. Barclay, assistant coach at the University of Michigan. Soft-spoken in manner, energetic, Iron-willed Barclay took effective command of the situation. Building around a nucleus of only two superior players, Barclay squeezed every possible ounce of talent out of his small squad and came up with a quintet that has been a credit to crimson colors, handing the championship Columbia five its only loss in Ivy League play, as well as downing Yale and complling a 16 and 9 record in overall competition...
...army and two other contests, in the Boston Garden or Arena, to the relief of harassed fans who stormed the Blockhouse for some of this year's main attractions. In addition, practice in the spring and early fall will give Barclay the time he needs to shape his potential talent into a consistent, winning quintet...