. Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide . of basket ball the record ofthis team was not surprising, for nothing less was expected ofa team, every member of which had played at least one year forWilliams, and three niembers of which had won All-NewEngland honors. Staying power, team work and persistent de-fensive play, developed almost to perfection, made Williams thebest team in New England, and in the minds of many, the bestin the country. A stronger defensive team than Williams didnot play last year, but there were better offensive teams. Thosewho said that the speed of the wearer
. Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide . of basket ball the record ofthis team was not surprising, for nothing less was expected ofa team, every member of which had played at least one year forWilliams, and three niembers of which had won All-NewEngland honors. Staying power, team work and persistent de-fensive play, developed almost to perfection, made Williams thebest team in New England, and in the minds of many, the bestin the country. A stronger defensive team than Williams didnot play last year, but there were better offensive teams. Thosewho said that the speed of the wearers of the Purple made de-fensive play unnecessary overlooked the very secret of its suc-cess. Beginning the season with a determination to hold itsopponents to low scores, developing consistently from the first,playing better basket ball away from home than on the homecourt, and thus discrediting those who are wont to attribute thesuccesses of Williams in basket ball to the defeets of the homecourt, Williams made a complete record of victories. New. SPALDIXOR LIBRARY. 59 Englanrl li:is seen the equal of this team in many a season,and is not likely to see its Cf|ual soon. , with only two experienced players, made a splen-did record, winning nine games out of fourteen. As usual, ahard schedule was undertaken, and with an inexperienced team,Wesleyan was obliged to play games away from home withColumbia and Pennsylvania early in the season. Wesleyan wasnrj exception to the rule that green players .show their green-ness most on strange floors, for of the five defeats, four cameii-. out-of-town games. Brown and the College of the City ofNew York were defeated on their own floors, and Williams wasthe only team to win in Middletown. Among the notable vic-tories on the home floor were those over New York University,Dartmouth, Tufts and Cornell, while away from hom-e Wesleyan,in accordance with its peculiar habit of the past few seasons,gave Williams the st
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