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some top-notch floor play, with Baynes accounting for
plenty ofVarsity baskets to lead in the Rochester scoring.
Mitch Williams, captain of the 1941-42 yearling team,
probably will carry the major burden of pivot work for
the rest of the season, since Freshman Neil Culhane has
been declared ineligible. Ken Flowerday, another freshman,
has been a regular starter.
ROCHESTER 68, ALUMNI 19
The alumni scored first on Wes Van Grafieland's hook
shot, and Tuck Faulkner scored shortly thereafter to tie
the count at 4-all, but thenceforth the Varsity's sharpshooters
kept the graduates toiling far in the rear. The
floor wizards of former years-including Jap Apperman,
showing in his fourteenth straight alumni-Varsity contest;
Bud Spies, Pete Kelly, Russ Craytor, Lee Henehan,
and Pete Stranges-couldn't halt the stampede, and they
scored nine field goals while the youngsters of the Varsity
poured thirty-three through the net.
ROCHESTER 36, CORNELL 35
Outplaying the Varsity through most of the game,
Cornell though it had won, 33 to 31, until the referee
called the two teams back for an additional six seconds;
Rochester had asked for time out just before the final
gun, and the timekeeper had missed the official's signal.
Substitute Carlos Chapman snared the ball on the tipoff,
and passed to Dick Baroody, who sank a twenty-footer
that was in the air for the tying basket when the second
half ended. In the overtime period Rochester collected a
foul shot and a field goal to edge the Big Red by a single
point.
ROCHESTER 45, HARVARD 36
Showing an aggressiveness lacking in the Cornell
game, the Varsity scored a decisive win over the previously
undefeated Harvards, with Jim Beall and Mitch
Williams dominating the scoring for Rochester. Neil
Culhane, in the pivot slot, turned in a good performance,
but it was Rochester's superior playmaking skill, in
which Dick Baroody and Johnny Baynes starred, and
the ball-stealing abilities of Freshman Ken Flowerday,
that spoiled the evening for the Crimson. Rochester
needed all its marksmanship from the field, for the entire
team had a poor evening from the foul line, missing all
but three of a dozen free throws.
ROCHESTER 53, OHIO STATE 52
The tall and rugged Buckeyes, outmatched in team
finesse and marksmanship by the Varsity, were decisively
checked by their opponents until the final few minutes
of play, when they launched a stirring rally that threw
the Rochesters off balance and all but overcame the
locals' II-point lead. They came up with a rush to tie
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the count at 50-all with seconds to play, and added
another basket while Jim Beall was sinking a free throw
and Johnny Baynes a field goal. The rattled Varsity lost
the ball just before the gun, but a long Ohio State steve
failed to connect.
Johnny Baynes played topnotch ball to lead the scorers,
making good on eight of fourteen tries at the basket and
netting three from the foul stripe for 19 points. Mitch
Williams was impressive as pivot man, garnering 10
points, and Co-Captains Jim Beall and Dick Baroody
contributed their usual stellar floor play.
WYOMING 68, ROCHESTER 46
The University of Wyoming Cowboys brought along
Milo Komenich, six-foot, seven inch center, and Ken
Sailors, one of the most skillful courtmen ever to show
in the Palestra, and the two of them scored a total of 48
points-enough to beat the Varsity. The towering
Komenich was practically unguardable as he tossed in 30
points to break the Palestra record set by Bob Collett in
1940. Wyoming led throughout; Johnny Baynes again
topped the Varsity in scoring, notching 18 points for
the losers, Dick Baroody scoring 10 points.
BUFFALO 45, ROCHESTER 40
Art Powell, who used to coach the Varsity before and
during the first World War, achieved no little satisfaction
in seeing his Buffalo team trim the Varsity, that failed,
in its first post-holiday game, to show the finish and
accuracy that marked its play against big-time foes met
earlier in the season. Rochester managed to gain brief
leads during the first half and came up to intermission
with a 27-all deadlock, but the Bulls upset tradition by
outscoring the home team in the final half and were
particularly destructive in the closing ten minutes. Dick
Baroody surprised the fans by leading the Rochester
scorers with 13 points. Corriere starred for the visitors
with 21 points.
It was the first Varsity game following the announcement
of the OPA ban on pleasure driving, but over 1,500
persons journeyed to the River Campus by bus to see the
contest. This was in contrast to the Wyoming game on
New Year's night, when over 3,000 spectators jammed
the Palestra and an equal number were turned away
because all of the seats were sold.
The basketball and swimming schedules will be completed
as planned, unless travel is further restricted by
OPA edict, according to an announcement made by
President Alan Valentine. University policy is that these
sports are primarily for the participants and for the
undergraduates, and the drop in attendance due to restrictions
on the use of automobiles will not affect this
policy until "it is clear that the holding of such games
is against the public interest."
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