Temple University - Templar Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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St. Joe moves the ball around Blumenthal snares the ball The Codymen rose to their greatest heights of the year in their last victory of the season, stopping the vaunted Western Michigan five, which had previously scored sixteen consecutive wins against collegiate fives, 55-51. Budd and Koecher totaled 34 points. Two days after the announcement of their N. C. A. A. Invitation, the Owls, slightly off as a result of the strain of their past games, failed in their attempt to retain the City Title. The fighting Hawks of St. Joseph ' s downed Temple, 48-46, to revenge their 1943 loss. They led at halftime, 28-20, splurging in the closing minutes of that period for a lead they never lost. Joyce scored 21 points in this game, the highest total for an Owl player during the 1943-44 campaign. Climaxing a highly successful season with an easy win over Catholic University, the Owl courtmen came out third in the Eastern N. C. A. A. tournament. the 14 wins for 23 starts does not look too impressive, we must realize that the team is composed almost entirely of Freshmen but who can say what today ' s Freshmen will do tomorrow? Fast action

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Dick Koecher makes a one-handed shot Back on the winning ways again, Cody ' s lads three straight, topping West Virginia, 46-32; Canisius, entrant in the National Invitation Tournament, 46-33, at Buffalo; and La Salle, 73-45, to set a new mark. Frosh Koecher, whose set-shooting, backboard play, and fine work featured the last half of the season, scored 47 points in these three games, totaling 19 in his Convention Hall debut. Muhlenberg came down to Philly and stopped the Owls for the second time, 48-38, wiping out a Temple halftime edge of 27-23 with a terrific flurry of shots. Once again pulling themselves up by the bootstraps. the Cherry and White courtmen scored four straight wins. They opened their streak by upsetting St. John ' s, 47-44, after trailing, 25-23, at halftime, and near the close of the game. Budd ' s 12 and Joyce ' s 11 points featured the Owl attack. Washington and Jefferson ' s quintet was the next victim. The Western Pennsylvania team couldn ' t cope with the attack of the Templars, which was greatly aided by Koecher ' s 18 tallies, and went down, 56-41. The Owls successfully invaded State College for the first time in years, downing the Nittany Lions for the second time, 31-30, in a thriller that was decided by Dave Fox ' s layup shot. The bigger they come the harder they fall

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Coach Ben Ogden, Sapatola, Feldman, Rappaport, Kunin, Cooneo, Bramble, Hubka, A llen, Sherman, Reiff, Rutecky, McCauley, Park Track Joe McCauley takes his position for the sprint In this year ' s short spring season Ben Ogden ' s trackmen are scheduled to meet Swarthmore and Lehigh and may possibly clash with Haverford and New York University. Newcomer Sheldon Feldman will enter the low and high hurdles, shot put, running broad jump, and javelin. Sophomores Ray Reiff and Pinky Wood double in the high jump and pole vault with Reiff also trying the 50-yard dash and Wood the running broad jump. Bill Budd, the only other upperclassman on the team, will take part in the high jump. Gene Parks, another Freshman, will enter the broad jump, high jump, pole vault and track. Warren Allen and Herb Spatola will do the mile run, Joe McCauly the 50-yard dash, and Joe Harris the quarter-mile. In the field events the shot put and javelin claim Hubka, Wick, and Bebetsky. Jim Joyce joins Budd, Parks, Wood, and Reiff in the high jump. The trackmen hope to equal last year ' s season in which they won two out of three meets.