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Yesterday afternoon, Coach Wachter sent his entire squad through a long practice session to eliminate the faults shown Tuesday night in the opening contest with the Connecticut Agricultural College five. The chief weakness found that the team in this game was the fact that the defence men failed to cover their men carefully with the result that the opposing forwards slipped in many baskets almost unopposed...
Laying great emphasis on remedying this point, Coach Wachter also gave careful coaching to the work of the center and forwards, particularly in playing follow-up shots. In the first game Fitts, at center, got the tap nearly every time on the jump but there was a marked weakness on the part of the forwards in getting hold of the ball and carrying it down the court...
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock on the main floor of Hemenway Gymnasium Coach Wachter's basketball team will face the first trial of its second season as an organized sport when it lines up against the Connecticut Agricultural College team. Since the original 48 men reported to Coach Wachter two weeks ago, the squad has been brought along rapidly and has gradually been reduced to a more workable size. Last Monday it was cut to 38 men while today's workout will find but 28 players remaining...
...Coach Wachter has been experimenting with many different combinations of men and will probably not pick a definite first team until after the third or fourth contest of the season. A general idea of the more promising men on the squad and of those most liable to get into the game tomorrow is to be gained from the makeup of the two quintets which clashed in the exhibition contest Friday night. These players were as follows; forwards, Captain A. E. McLeish '23, Lewis Gordon '24, M. B. Lowenthal '23, and D. H. Stevens '24; centers, A. S. Love...
Following the game Coach Wachter and Mr. Kelly demonstrated the changes in the rules which have been made this year, while Mr. Towers again answered questions...