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...year-around sport has been developed at Harvard, and is being followed by a small but rabid bunch of enthusiasts, and its name is basketball. For the second year in a row, as soon as the spring football practice sessions have ended, End Coach Wes Fesler has rapidly metamorphosed into Cage Coach Fesler, and the moleskins and dirt of the Briggs Cage have been exchanged for the shorts and the hardwood floor of the New Indoor Athletic Building...
Playing basketball in any form at any time is hot work, but basketball a la Fesler in springtime in the stuffy gymnasium is a task to try any man's soul. Despite the intimidating aspects of the sport, 22 brave basketeers turned up to do or die, six of them being lettermen. Only two of the returning lettermen did not appear, Graham Spring, who subbed for Long Bill Gray at the pivot post all winter, and Ray Lavietes, small, quick utility man, who is now playing on the Adams House nine...
...valuable addition to the squad. He is faster and can pivot quicker than practically anyone on the floor at present, and has a good basket eye. His loss to the 1937 Freshman team was a severe one, but if he is available next winter, it will delight the Fesler heart...
Contact work has not been entirely lacking, however, for the ends, otherwise known as Fesler's iron men, have been pushing and mauling each other around the Briggs Cage until ready to drop. If anyone is going to be in condition next fall, it is obvious that it will be the ends...
Throughout the afternoon, while the aspirants worked in groups, under regular and volunteer coaches, including Rae Crowther, Mike Palm, Fesler, Jimmy Knox, and Cliff Gallagher, Harlow himself seemed to be watching everything at once. No slip-shod play escaped his notice--nor for that matter did a good performance miss a barked grunt of "That...