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Caught up in the current--and possibly valid--obsession that the primary duty of a basketball coach is to win games, Holman admitted his bitterness about the five games City has dropped to date. "Only one of them was lost legitimately," he complained, but added quickly, "Not that my boys have a price...
They came out of hiding the other night at the Graduate Center when a large number of City alumni gathered for the first time in this area to fete Holman and his national champions. The members of the '50-51 squad were practicing on the Blockhouse boards for their Wednesday evening meeting with Holy Cross at the Garden...
...Basketball" Holman, in his 32nd year an court coach of City College of New York, has never tired of the nomadic life force on him by his profession. The sharply-dressed, tight-lipped businessman coach still like the long travelling of the on-season, likes the riotous welcomes given him by City college alumni in all parts of the country--and likes to talk about it. "Even out on the west coast on our last trip." he says with a slow chuckle, "the C.C.N.Y. grads really came out of hiding...
...Holman's "boys" were all there, ducking under the doorway as they entered--Ed Warner, Most Valuable Player in the N.I.T. Ed Roman, one of the game's most versatile tall men, iron-man guards Floyd Lane and Al Roth, and the players who fill out the weaker fifth position. They were looking a little self-conscious in identical chocolate-brown traveling suits which a manager explained, "helps us to keep them together...
...Beavers are never self-conscious on the court, and yet they own a mediocre nine-and-five record. Every opponent has been pointing for a win over the Grand Slammers; Holman is inclined to put a lesser emphasis on his graduation losses and the injuries that have plagued Warner and Roman this season. "There are no individuals," he Insists. "You have to use five...