Saint Michaels College - Hilltop Yearbook (Colchester, VT)

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PM We vw.. U if 44 , it at A .fy , 4 ' IWW 'T' Milli X . 4 nf bfi ,nik W c i V I , la' f vt 1 f Jr. Q J, 3, 4' f , kyrr k w x 'K Coach Barry Branon 31 And with this interesting conclusion we swung into December and the beginning of the basketball schedule. The Dartmouth lndians were our opponent in the season's lid lifter which was played, of all places, in the Barre Auditorium. The famed Doggie lulian was handling the coaching down at Hanover and the Knights were wonder- ing if lulian's Dartmouth club would resemble the NCAA champs he had piloted at Holy Cross. lim Farley got things going, however, as he dropped in a toul tor the first point of the game, and the Knights held on to the lead until, with tive rninutes to go the lndians moved ahead, 40-37. It looked bad at this point but the Knights were in no mood to get scalped as George Barry, Paul Stapleton and Barry again hit on succes- sive shots to put the Purple back in the driver's seat. The postmaster then dumped in another driv- ing lay up to bring his point total to l3 and leave him tied with Ted Burzenski tor scoring honors when the game ended a second later with the Knights on the high end of a 46 to 42 count. The opener had been slow and somewhat sloppy but the Knights now moved into high gear. Entertaining Champlain in Memorial Au- ditorium the Purple easily racked up an 83-56 triumph. Picking up Where he had left off the season betore, big Ted Burzenski tossed in 10 tield goals and a foul shot tor a total of 2l points, Hook shot artist Paul Aumand hit for l3 as did Danger- ous Dan McCarthy as the Knights swung back into the form expected ot them. The managers - Don Droulette cmd lack Barry I ,f1tP6s.l e'NMqztls ,size ff F41 il' l sn, ..., ,r KW... ln,, Hl '