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...League victory, the Crimson mermen traveled to Princeton Saturday only to be dunked by a hot Tiger team, 47 to 28. Captain Johnny Eusden and George Christman did their best to hold up the loser's end, each taking one first and one second place...
...Another squadron leader named John C. Waldron made history at Midway. Remember? And a young lieut. commander, John H. Morrill, took his men from the Philippines to Australia in a PT boat. And the McNickle twins are flying bombers over Europe. And there's "Duke" Hedman, the Flying Tiger who was personally decorated by Madame Chiang Kai-shek-and Warren Evans, chosen the typical American Ranger-and Don Smith who was decorated after flying with Doolittle over Tokyo. . . . Their deeds are first of all American, I grant you, but they are also Dakotan...
...Poor Tiger...
With the same grit and crude determination that resulted in last October's Comeford to Lyle miracle at the expense of another Tiger team, Earl Brown's rags-to-riches quintet never stopped fighting, running, scrambling. Not until they had shown their Nassau "superiors" who was boss under the backboard, and out in the keyhole, where the pivot and jump shots of Burditt, Dean Hennessey, Hugh Hyde, and George Dillon put Princeton's pot-shooters to shame. shame...
...Student Council president, Captain Bunks Burditt. After Princeton's high-scoring Palmer, who led with 16 points, had put his team seven up from the foul line, Burditt rid of the troublesome mask, and Hyde, assisted by Dillon and Hennessey, rampaged for a total of 13 points while the Tiger big guns, outjumped under the backboards and their shooting erratic as a result of Crimson defensive tenacity, were fatally silent...