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University basketball will start informally tomorrow afternoon under the direction of Coach Edward Wachter Jr., when all candidates report at the Hemenway Gymnasium at 3 o'clock. Regular practice will commence early next week...
...University returns to the basketball court after a long absence. Candidates for the five report to Coach Wachter this afternoon. Needless to say the building of a team will be a hard task in a college where basketball tradition itself has died out; but it will be exceedingly, worth while, if Harvard receives the new minor sport with anything like the enthusiasm shown at Yale and Princeton...
...Coach Wachter deserves the hearty support of the University in his attempt to put Harvard on such a footing that, beginning modestly, it will be able soon to compete with its great st rivals in a sport too long ignored...
Freshmen had their first workout yesterday afternoon with Coach Wachter and a squad of 48 men reported. More candidates are needed for the Yearling outfit, especially men who have just finished football. Manager candidates for the 1924 five are to report this afternoon for the first time at 4 o'clock at the new Freshman Gymnasium. Details of the managerial competition will be explained to the men at this time...
...Wachter, former Williams coach, who is rated as the best center that ever played the indoor game, said yesterday to a CRIMSON representative that it was his aim to build up a five-man team this year, every member of which quintet shall be in action every moment of the game. He will not try to build a team around any one star performer, rather is the man nearest the basket to shoot for the basket. "Basketball has developed into a passing game now, and team work is the first essential to be learned." For the first week...