Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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..-- , GD5 ikingl SV an Upon O The Jr The rd ouT game 2 New by The val Tor gnomi- players ne suc- e Thing nhaTTan lT was aisTed in rsT com- a oT iTs suddenly invasion Thrilling rad been The pre- Consecu- SiTy Col' r seTbaCl4- we Pl5Yed 19 winner ie -l55PSrs ln ii mars - . ...e..-..-,.. ..-- A L, - ,,.E'Y.ff9V 7'Ti W7 7 'i i T ' ' A . ,ri i--1 P 1 fg i l 9:?Eif5:2E55213i-is'f-.4. The regularly scheduled conTesT wiTh ST. John's aT The lO2ncl Engineers Armory provided The climax oT The season. ln a Tremendously Tense srruggle, lvlanhaTTan disTincTly surprised The baskeTball experTs by upseTTing The Redmen, 29-27. lT was an epic baTTle, beyond all measure oT doubT The mosT Thrilling aThleTic conTesT in which The Green has ever sTriven. The game opened in desulTory Tashion, wiTh ST. John's maniTesTing The same degree oT superioriTy as iT had in The previous conTesT. AT halT-Time The score-board revealed a l9-4 margin in Tavor oT The VincenTians. So conTidenT oT vicTory was Buck Freeman, menTor oT The lndians, ThaT he replaced his regular linemen wiTh a Team oT subsTiTuTes. UndaunTed by The almosT insurmounTable oclds againsT Them The Jaspers sTarTed To play wiTh a cold Tury ThaT virTually swepT The cocky Redmen OTT The courT. ln less Than nine minuTes The TiTTeen-poinT deTiciency had been alrered by eleven poinTs, and Freeman, sTill conTrclenT oT easy vicTory, hasTily reinserTed his regulars inTo The game. AT This poinT, however, There was no sTopping The Jaspers, who conTinued Their spurT unTrl They had gained a Two-poinT margin, To which They grimly held unTil The reTeree's whisTle senT The game inTo hisTory. Rensselaer PolyTechnic lnsTiTuTe oT Troy came To Town To meeT The Jaspers in Their nexT engagemenT buT The Engineers made Their liTTle Trip To no avail. ATTer :Ts ' ' b T rousing Triumph over ST. John, lvlanhaTTan was noT going To be sTopped y a eam oT This calibre. They weren'T. The score was 32-l7. Duquesne presenTed a more diTTiculT problem Tor The Green. The PiTTsburghers roved Tough nuTs To crack buT evenTually bowed beTore The more eTTecTive shooTing P oT The lvlanhaTTan Tive. The Jaspers Tinished on The long end oT a 29-23 score aTTer an excepTionally exciTing sTruggle. The inTer olaTion oT anoTher upseT made TurTher ravages inTo The Green's record. 2 All i ,fx ,,.ff.,., T P Providence College was The perpeTraTor oT The oTTense, wiTh The Jaspers being vic- Timized To The exTenT oT 23-22. lT was a nip-and-Tuck baTTle ThroughouT The disTance, wiTh Providence having The sTronger Tinishing drive. This was one oT The mosT inTer- - esTing conTesTs oT The season. The aggressive TacTics oT The huge coach oT The Dominicans who inTerrupTed The game several Times To walk ouT on The Tloor To give , The reTeree a Tongue lashing, gave The crowd ample opporTuniTy Tor vocal eTTorT. An If unTorTunaTe incidenT in This game was The injury oT Tom l-logan, The promising sopho- more cenTre, who TracTureol his leTT ankle in a severe scrimmage under The Providence baskeT. T MT. ST. lvlary's College, The Green's old rival Trom EmmiTsburg, in The Mary- y land lvlounTains, served as a Till-in opponenT and served ThaT purpose admirably. The .laspers Tinishecl on The besr end OT a 26-I6 score. ln anoTher one oT Those Thrilling inTra-meTropoliTan conTesTs lvlanhaTTan and New York UniversiTy locked horns Tor a sTrenuous Tussle. The Jaspers once more revealed Their capabiliTies as a TighTing Team and wiped a huge halT-Time deTiciency To Triumph by The saTe margin oT 24-19. The VioleT Tive, which had been insralled as a heavy pre-game TavoriTe, gained an aclvanTage OT eighT poinTs by inTermission Time. ln We 277