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...turned back the championship Worcester aggregation last week, Coach Wachter's men swept all before them during the greater part of the first period, amassing a total of 15 points before being halted. At this point the Granite State team, led by the sensational Perry, commenced to function and sank basket after basket in the Crimson net, their furious rally ending only with the call of time. Through the early stretches of the final session, also, the University team seemed bewildered by the impetuous attack of the visitors; but with 10 minutes to play the Crimson forwards staged a remarkable...
...winners' forwards scored almost at will, caging twenty-two baskets from the floor, while the University was held to one field goal, a sensational one-handed shot by Fitts near the end of the first period. The rest of the University's points were made by Pallo, who sank thirteen free throws out of sixteen chances. During the game Tyson, the star Crimson center, suffered a sprained ankle, and Captain Tolbert was also injured...
...start of the second period neither team scored, although both threatened. With only a few minutes, and Dartmouth leading by 4 points, Gordon's free throws evened the score, and in the last minutes of play, Gordon, Sipp and Stevens each sank a basket. Several times the losers came near scoring, but superb guarding by Rudolfsky and Black held them to only one basket...
Shortly afterwards the Sophomore boat sank, leaving the Senior crew the only one afloat. Luckily the steam launch was close by the Sophomores as they went went down and picked up all the men. Both boats were towed in to the B. A. A. float and left there for the night...
...have no fear for the star athlete, the cream of our young men, who have gone, but I do fear for the men who were discouraged because they could not make the first team, and sank back to become athletic slackers when they were in college because they thought they were not good nough. They consider themselves good enough to go and fight their country's battles, however, and we, with our old system of athletics, in which we placed the premium on the specialized expert, have really denied them the physical training that they find so necessary...