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...University basketball season will open with a meeting of all candidates for the University squad in the Hemenway Gymnasium at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Coach E. A. Wachter Jr. and Captain A. E. MacLeish Jr. '23 will address the players, outlining the plans for the work of the season. Actual practice will start tomorrow afternoon. Candidates from the Sophomore class for the second assistant managership of the University team will meet in Randolph 41 at 7.15 o'clock this evening...
...meeting Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium, the second season of basketball as a minor sport will be launched under the direction of Coach Edward A. Wachter Jr. Coach Wachter and Captain A. E. McLeish Jr. '23 will outline the work of the season to the candidates. Although football men will be unable to come out for a week or more, the management strongly wishes that they attend this meeting. Practice will start next week, and will include some intensive training for the first game of the season on December 6. Freshmen can start work...
...Edward Wachter Jr., coach of last year's University and Freshman fives, will arrive in Cambridge November 15, and informal practices under his direction will probably commence on his arrival. No assistant coach has as yet been appointed. The first game scheduled for the University quintet will be that with Connecticut Agricultural College on December 6, while the season ends with the second contest with Yale in Hemenway Gymnasium on March 11. Twenty-three games are included in the Crimson schedule. Several scrimmages with the 1925 team will probably be held before the opening contest...
Practice was called early in December with about thirty-five men reporting regularly, and the work was started immediately. Coach Wachter, assisted by Coach Miller, drilled the men in the fundamentals of passing, shooting and defense work for the first few weeks, and it was not until after the Christmas recess that the squad was really chosen, although several games were played with the University team and with a team of Business and Law School...
After this game the spirit of the squad seemed at a low ebb, but with intensive work-outs Coach Wachter put fighting spirit into the men. They defeated Tufts 1924, Dean Academy, Reading High School, the Boston Y. M. C. A., Exeter, and Worcester Academy in good form, leading throughout most of the contests and playing with the same dash and spirit which marked the early season games. In the final game with Yale, however, the team again slowed up to a considerable extent, and this, coupled with the unfamiliar Yale floor, caused them to be defeated in a stiffly...