Injury-Ilness
Epidemic Hits
Fordham Five

4 Stars Put Out of Action
inWeek, WeakeningSquad
of Tall and Able Players

By Everett B. Morris

Ed Kelleher, who has been coach-
ing basketball long enough to become
something of a practicing philoso-
‘pher, still is not so completely tem-
perate that he cannot react nor-
‘mally to good fortune and the op-
posite thereof.

Two weeks ago he was walking

 

around the Fordham University)

@ymnasium as though his feet were
treading on softly tufted clouds. He
wore a happy, if somewhat dazed,
smile. He had seen something that
he did not dare to believe—a squad
which combined height, speed, scor-
ing power and defensive tenacity, a
squad with the stuff to restore Ford-
ham to basketball eminence.
Today he is a disillusioned man,
‘holding his head in his hands, his
pirits so low that he trips over
hem as he shuffles around the same
ymnasium looking at the wreckage
‘the squad which Kelleher is now
ertain appeared to him in a mirage.
Three to Miss Opener _

Kelleher’s plunge from the sun-
shine of optimism to the mines of
despair occurred last week when in-
juries and illness snatched four of
the Maroon’s leading eight . oper-
atives off the active list. Three of
them will be missing wnen the Rams
open their campaign tomorrow with
St. Peter’s in Jersey City and it may

 

 

 

 

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