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Cornell to Face
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Cornell’s varsity basketball team returns to Barton Hall

‘at 8:15 p.m. tonight, still in quest of their first Ivy League

- win.-Brown, picked by the coaches to finish last in the
league, provides the opposition. seenegs
If the local cagers hope to make a strong showing “Ir
this season’s Ivy title race, a win over Brown is a necessity

The Big Red now possesses an
0-1 league record as a result of | w=.
the 21 point defeat administe.
by Harvard last weekend.

Brown has improved over their
mediocre 7-18 record of 1954-55.
The Bruins hold wins over Tufts,
Rhode Island, and Northeastern.
Only Providence College was able
to defeat the Ivy Leaguers in their
opening game of the season. |

However, this outstanding record
may be deceptive. The Bruin’s:
three victories came over teams
with a combined season’s mark of.
J-10. The team lacks size and ex-
perience, No man on the Brown
squad is taller than 6-4, but for
that matter this height problem
also plagued Harvard. About the
only thing certain is that Brown
has improved; how much they
have improved will not be known
until tonight.

The Bruin’s 74-71. overtime win
against Rhode Island was partic-
ularly gratifying to Coach Stan
Ward. Joe Tebo, a sophomore.
guard, scored 29. points against.
the Rams, while the rest of the!
Brown team also performed well
in this upset victory.. Tebo is
averaging 21 points’ per game
after the first four contests.

However, Tebo is not the only
Brown scoring threat. Center Jerry
Alaimo, a natural forward who
has been converted to the pivot.
spot due to a lack of height, has
been deadly on his inside shots.
The 6-3 sophomore has scored 23

_ field goals out of 50 attempts, and
also leads in rebounds with an
average of 16.3 per game. Brown’s

Starting lineup is completed by

_ three seniors—Capt. Chuck Mer-
ritt, Phil Gerould, and Pete Cam-
pisi. ° : :

Cornell also appears to be much
better, at least than their play
in the Harvard game would indi-
cate. Colgate, who Cornell defeated
by six points, split a pair of one
point decisions on the road against
Princeton and Columbia this week.
Both of these teams are strong
Ivy title contenders.

Coach Royner Green will call
upon Ray Zelek, Chuck Rolles,
Dick Meade, Larry Pearson,: and |
Bo Roberson to open against the
visitors. gee.

Rolles and Zelek appear to be
the key men of this year’s Cornell
team. The 5-6 backcourtman looks
like a cinch to better his sixth
place finish in last year's Ivy scor-
ing race. In the three contest’s
played to date, Rolles is averaging

_ 22 points per. game, and has a
* 93.1 field goal percentage.

Sharing the team height honors |
with 6-5 Flip Calkin, Zelek has
been doing a large share of Cor-
nell’s rebounding. Although poses-

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