Word: winter
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...rugged transfer student, Ed Cuff, who terrorized the House league last winter, will fill one of the forward posts. Formerly a student at Holy Cross, Cuff has served a term in the Army, where he picked up the rough, driving style of play that is his forte. Wilson has smoothed our Cuff's brawling methods, and he feels that the 6 ft., 3 in. junior will be the team's offensive mainstay. Cuff is particularly effective with his back to the basket...
Coach Floyd Wilson, although predicting that "we'll improve over last year," admits that this season's unit is "farther behind in progress as a team than any other squad I've ever had." Only one member of the starting five returns at the same position he played last winter, although four are tested competitors. Of the tenman varsity squad, three are seniors, two juniors, and the rest sophomores, giving Wilson one of the youngest teams in the East...
Teaming with the 6 ft. Donohue at guard will be Bob Bowditch, a forward last winter. Wilson calls Bowditch "the best shooter on the squad," and the 6 ft., 1 in. marksman possesses a deadly jump shot which helped him hit for an average of 10 points per contest as a sophomore last year...
...Danner is, after all, only a sophomore, and it will take a while for him to accustom himself to the faster varsity brand of basketball. Bowditch, at guard, must learn the nuances of a new position, and Donohue will not have the complementary services of George Harrington this winter...
Stranger in Paradise. Near Springfield, Ore., after the main building of the Willamettans nudist colony burned to the ground, its only winter resident, Caretaker A. B. Stevens, breathlessly reported that he had fled the flames with only a few personal belongings and "the clothes on my back...