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...start of the second period the 1924 five held the ball practically all the time, and some clever fast passing was done without much scoring. The St. George team had a fairly good defense, but the victors proved too fast for them. In the middle of the half Coach Wachter sent in the second-string players and they managed to hold the losers to an almost even score. The first-string men were put in again near the end, and the contest ended 74-20 in favor of the Freshman five...
Thus far Coach Wachter's men have made a good record for themselves when one considers that this is the first year basketball has been a minor sport. Out of seven games played thus far, Captain Tolbert has led his men to victory in five, suffering defeats by Wesleyan of Middletown and Worcester P. I. At both of these colleges basketball is rated among the important sports. The University, however, will have a chance to wipe out the latter defeat Saturday...
...tomorrow and Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Saturday are the teams which the University basketball team will meet this week. Both games are expected to be hard fought and close, especially the latter, since the Worcester team has already taken the University's measure, 43-21. But Coach Wachter and his men, after three well earned victories in a row, are confident that they can keep up the winning streak. Just as the Tufts and Amherst games showed the Crimson offensive play had improved remarkably over the former games, the Williams game showed the defense to be able to hold...
Starting from the bottom, with no established coaching system, no tradition, and by no means good practice facilities, the team has shown the remarkably quick development of an aggregation of individual excellence into a fighting machine of power and precision. The credit for this development rightly belongs to Coach Wachter, who is living up to the reputation of supremacy in basketball coaching which he brought to Cambridge last fall. His team has made the auspicious beginning of five decisive victories and two defeats, neither of which were inglorious...
...Coach Wachter plans to start the same men that he did in the Tufts game. They have developed into a fast, spirited, versatile combination whose team-play is steadily improving...