. Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide . wEngland, but it is quite another thing to say in effect that amongall the other teams of the section not a single man could be foundcapable of adding strength to the Williams team, or, in fact,capable of replacing one member of that team without weakeningit. What of Brady of Dartmouth, Parker of Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology, J. Hayward of Wesleyan, and others nearly,if not quite as good? The problem was unique and, since uniqueproblems call for unique solutions, the writer adopted an unusualmethod, namely, that of selecting two Al
. Spalding's official collegiate basket ball guide . wEngland, but it is quite another thing to say in effect that amongall the other teams of the section not a single man could be foundcapable of adding strength to the Williams team, or, in fact,capable of replacing one member of that team without weakeningit. What of Brady of Dartmouth, Parker of Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology, J. Hayward of Wesleyan, and others nearly,if not quite as good? The problem was unique and, since uniqueproblems call for unique solutions, the writer adopted an unusualmethod, namely, that of selecting two All-New England teams,neither of which was to be called the first or the second other words, five Williams players were selected to com-pose one All-Nevv England team, and five other players werechosen from the other colleges to compose a team equally asstrong. It is a striking tribute to Williams to say in substancethat one must choose from six other colleges to get a team tomatch the Williams five, yet obviously it is not as great a tribute. SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 69 as that paid by those who selected five Williams players for asingle All-New England first team. Therefore the Williams team unchanged was selected—Lewisand Lambie, forwards; Templeton, center; Wallace and Hamil-ton, guards—^and the most valuable players of the other col-leges were selected to match the Williams five. The choice forone forward position was easy—Brady of Dartmouth. It wouldbe a wonderful team indeed that could not be made by thisDartmouth captain, a player of four years experience in thecollege game, an accurate goal-thrower, a quick and sure passer,and a powerful dribbler. For the other forward position, themost likely candidates were Mullen of Dartmouth, E. P. Haywardand Davidson of Wesleyan, Swaffield and MacKay of Brown,Kimball and Knight of Tufts, Cook of Trinity, and Fitzpatrickof Worcester Polytechnic Institute. With one exception, theseforwards were in-and-out players, bri
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