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...University basketball quintet will make its unofficial debut at 8 o'clock tonight, when five former Harvard stars invade Hemenway Gymnasium to play their first public game against Harvard. The game is not on the regular schedule, but Coach Wachter will send his first-string team on the floor and the game will be played with an official referee and all the appearances of an opening game. It will be open to the public free of charge...
...long drill in fundamentals set this year by Coach Wachter has proved its value in the team-work that the first five has been showing in the daily light scrimmages. Four teams have been going through ten-minute halves every day, and this week passing and handling the ball has lost its place as the chief feature of the practice. Much attention is being given to dummy signal formations, and to intensive practice in the Harvard five-man defense. Rudofsky is the only star defense man lost to the squad, and with Captain Samborski, Morrison, J. D. Malick '27, Donald...
...basketball rules to be enforced this year will be officially explained and illustrated at a special game to be held in Hemenway Gymnasium on Friday night. Two teams from the University squad will play an informal game which will be interrupted by the coaches to explain different points. Coach Wachter and Mr. Oswald Tower, a prominent official, will probably make short explanatory speeches. After the game is over, the floor will be opened to a general symposium at which questions about the rules will be discussed by New England referees and coaches who are expected to be present...
Having cut his squad of well over half a hundred to the more workable size of 40, Coach Wachter has been sending his charges through a stiff daily drill in the fundamentals of the game. Handling the ball, passing and basket shooting are expected to form the bulk of the practice for some time to come...
...last year were at practice yesterday afternoon except men who have been out for football and who will not report for a week or ten days yet. Captain Samborski, who was out for football was at the practice, but did not take an active part except to help Coach Wachter with the new candidates. C. E. Baldwin '26, one of the football men, was also on the floor yesterday afternoon and took an active part in the preliminary work...