Pace University - Legend Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Basketball NTFRING into their fourth season of inter- collegiate competition, the Pace College Bas- ketball Setters represented a comparatively green and inexperienced quintet. The veterans of the past season graduated en masse or were depleted from the ranks by the national emergency. Ted Edwards, who broke all existing scoring records and who led the 1949-50 Setters with a total of 400 points in twenty-one games, fell victim to an activated National Guard Battalion. Lou Ketner was recalled by the Ma- rine Corps. Captains Bob Reinhart, Mel Becourt- ney, and Saul Gerber were graduated. Fightin jim McDonough and Gus Schaub did not return to the team. Coach Peter Finnerty, starting his third year at the helm of the hoopsters, found only one let- terman returning from the 1949-50 winning squad. The outlook was brightened by the return, almost intact, of the young, tall, fast Freshman Team that had won twelve games and lost seven. At the PFC-SCHSOI1 practices, the ex-yearlings made up for their lack of experience in varsity competition with their spirit and hustle. Limiting the squad to ten men, Coach Finnerty prepared the boys for the tough, twenty-one game schedule that pitted them against the fast-moving teams of the smaller colleges in New York, New jersey, and Connecticut. The Setters opened the season against the Alumni and easily displaced their older rivals, 73-37. After defeating Mitchel Field, the team dropped hve games in a row to Yeshiva C50--i8j, Fairleigh Dickinson Q62-585, St, Peters Q91-63j, Queens Q59-47j, and Upsala C75-713. The Set- ters then came back to belt Drew University, 70-50, win an overtime game from Dickinson, 67-62g nip Wttlter Hervey, Gs-6s, and, overwhelm Fordham University's School of Fducation, 86-53. The Setters' road trip to New Haven State Teach- ers College and Hillyer College of Hartford pro- duced two more losses. The Farmingdale Aggies trounced the Setters, 65-50, but Pace roared back with an upset triumph over Adelphi, 65-55. Bloomfield won on a last second goal, 54-52, Drew evened the season series by winning 65-50, and Rutgers-Newark handed the team their fourth two-point loss, 55-55. Visiting Philadelphia Tex- tile was brought home by the Setters, 67-64, jersey City Teachers was succumbed easily, 89-65, but, Riders desperation all-court press gained them a 69-62 win. Panzer ended the season by up-end- ing Pace, 79-5-i.