Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's 3 to 31 loss to Wesleyan in basketball Saturday night at Middletown, Connecticut, may be just the kick in the pants that the Crimson hoop squad needs to wake it up if it expects to salvage even a few games this season when the competition gets stiffer...
...Wesleyan led all the way, and it was only when Coach Earl Brown inserted his second quintet that play perked up for the Crimson. The second five, sparked by Ed Rothschild, including Bill Webber, George Dillon, Bunks Burditt, and Jack Torgan, who finished up the first half, cut Wesleyan's lead from seven points to a mere two, the period ending with the score...
Fesler, who resigned his post as Crimson Varsity hoop mentor last year to become head coach of football and basketball at Wesleyan, will be out to defeat his former charges, including five Senior veterans who learned basketball under him for two years. They are Captain Bud Finegan, Joe Romano, Ed Buckley, Bill Webber, and Ed Rothschild...
Since it will be the first contest of the season for Wesleyan, Harvard has been given the role of the favorite. But one needs only to look back to Wednesday when a favored Crimson quintet bowed to a fighting Brown team, which also was playing its first game of the season, in order to see how little such things mean after the game has started...
...Harvard team, which started the season in such sparkling style against M. I. T., will have a chance to redeem itself tonight by repeating last year's 44 to 23 victory. HARVARD WESLEYAN Romano, lf rf, Bill Slitt Lutze, c c, Hurst Lutz, rf lf, Whalen Finegan, lg rg, Johnson Buckley, rg lg, Roberts