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Oklahoma stalwarts Refute Loose
. Talk That Tip-Less Game weakens
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By Everett B. liorris - New york
oe Herald Tribune. |

In view of all this loose talk about tipless basketball ~
putting too much of a physical and nervous strain’on the con-
stestants, it is interesting to consider :the Opinion of Hugh
McDermott, whose sophomere Oklahoma University team finiShed
second to Kansas by one game. for the Big six championship, ©

NeDermott's word on. the subject. swings more than average
weight because his squed employs the guick break, runs all night
and never heard of a delayed offense, [f the game without the ©
center jump ‘is toughcr on: the. boys, then it must be relatievly
tougher on ‘a quick breaking team, But the Oklahoma’ scotsman has
had no such experience, . Rend is Qu a ate Lol
"Seven of the tén Oklahoma varsity players," "have actually
gained weight through our-gruelling schedule, Only two of ‘our
boys, both reserves, have lost weight. Qne of these dropped six
pounds studying for final exams,.in January -when we.weren't play-
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"Twice this season our whole squad has been examined by
physicians who were unable to find any variance at any time in
any boy's blood préssure or: heart -rate, jioreover, we have had
only three cases of colds all season and tuat is exteptional, :

If the new rules had made: for. a: more fatiguing game, this fatigue
would have shown in loss of weight and, susceptability to colds,

The pros end Cons on this: subject cre marshaling their
forces for the impending. battle atthe coeches meeting in Chicago
on April 4, and 5, Incidentally, purdue,, the fastest tean in the
Big Ten, is in first plece and)iis showing no signs. of being worn
.to a frazzle, and what ‘team .is raising the, dickens with the |
Eastern Teague? Columbia, because it puts. einnphasis on: speed and
condition, eae

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