Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Drawled Deacon Anderson: "People don't know it got born because I got tired of mopping. Now I'm doing real swell...
...Anderson, who now plays in a Western band in Beaumont, Texas, the result added up to a song; he gave it a hillbilly beat and tried it on his steel guitar. After the war, he tried to sell the song, but everyone around Beaumont thought the whole idea was just plain silly. Last year he made a recording-he didn't know how to write the notes down-and sent it to a friend with the Johnnie Lee Wills band. Says Tulsa's Johnnie Lee, the idol of the Southwest's square-toe boot and blue-jean...
Three points in the last minute by the Bulldog's high-scoring Ted Anderson, followed by Harvard's failure to sink any of its four frantic shots in the last seven seconds, left the visiting Cantabs on the short end of a 56 to 55 score...
...hero of the frenzied denouement. Trailing by a slight margin through most of the game, Harvard spurted ahead to a 55 to 53 load with three minutes to go. During the subsequent freeze attempt, Bramhall lost the ball in a wild shot at the Yale basket, and then fouled Anderson's successful lay-up to give the Elis their one-point advantage...
...Anderson was the big man Saturday, however, with his total of 23 points. A wrenched knee suffered mid-way through the second half was all that kept his total from going much higher, though the injury wasn't serious enough to prevent his return for a devastating climax. Anderson's whirlwind drive under the basket typified the vastly superior speed of the Bulldog quintet--speed which should have insured a comfortable margin of victory but for Yale's poor shooting luck...