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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 16, No. 17. September 11, 1952

Men's Basketball..

Men's Basketball...

As for men's indoor basketball (played on outdoor courts)—to say that our team's performance was a fiasco would be to insult the fiasco. To be fair however, they were playing under some degree of difficulty. Firstly, only two of the seven sent were A grade players. Secondly, one of the seven could not even go on the court because of concussion which was suffered during a previous game. And the most crushing blow of all was when the star player, an N.Z.U. Blue and star of the side. Singhi Moral, went to bed on the doctor's orders after playing only one game, with influenza. As a result, with no replacements available many times the team was playing with only four and twice with only three players on the court. In spite of thus hardly anyone played below their capabilities and generally provided the other teams with a very energetic practice. A word of tribute must go to Jim Milburn, our Joynt Scroll representative, who had played basketball a few years before, and despite his lack of fintness, etc, was good enough to help the team out for one torrid quarter. The results were:—
O.U. v. A.U.C. 37-22
C.U.C v. V.U.C. 12-22
A.U.C v M.A.C. 24-43
O.U v. V.U.C. 53-7
C.U.C. v. O.U. 33-29
C.U.C. v. A.U.C 40-27
M.A.C. v. V.U.C. 60-10
MAC. v. C.U.C. 29-27
V.UC. v. A.U.C. 31-14
MAC. v. O.U. 31-27

Shield Places: 1. M.A.C; 2. C.U.C: 3. O.U.