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Title: Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fisher, Harry A., (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Basketball
Publisher: New York, The American sports publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ome floor. Cornell only met Pennsylvania and the serieshad the same ending. Of these four teams, Yale Probably displayed the best form.The New Haven team was badly handicapped by the lack of acoach and by injuries to the players. Both of these forcestended to break up team play, and Yale can trace the reasonfor almost every defeat to the lack of concerted action. Princeton played in-and-out ball. At times the Jerseymenplayed like champions, but too frequently they went to theother extreme. Notable among the seasons victories for theTigers were the defeats administered to Yale and Pennsylvanialate in the season, when Princeton played its best game. Cornell had very much the same sort of team as Princeton.The most notable victory for Cornell was won at the expenseof Pennsylvania at Ithaca early in the year. The season at Pennsylvania was disappointing. Injuries toplayers and deficiencies in studies kept the team broken up•ost of the season, so that Pennsylvania, for the first time in,
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SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 13 r. number of years, was easy for half the teams on a ratherlong schedule. Captain Kiendl of Columbia was perhaps the most con-spicr.ous player of the year. Kiendl improved his 1909 formgreatly and was easily the individual star of the season. Hewas by far the best man on his team and by his great work-alone inspired his team mates with the necessary confidence toput them into a pennant-winning combination. Conard andMilliken of West Point were two other forwards of lirst rank. Captain Eames and Finnessy of Yale played the most con-sistent game for their team. Eames was a first-class guardand a splendid captain. He was the only guard of the yearto really stop Kiendl. For Princeton, White, Hughes andVeeder were conspicuously good. White especially showed theearmarks of a star and, unless the writer is very much mis-taken, will prove a troublesome customer for the intercollegiateguards during the coming season. Captain Crosby was a whole team in himself and

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