Experienced B.C. Quintet Threatens '51's Boston Garden Debut Saturday

Tomorrow's Boston Garden debut against Boston College will be the climax of days of intense practice for the freshman quintet and may easily be it's toughest contest of the season.

Except for Holy Cross, B. C. annually turns out about the smoothest freshman team in the Boston area. This year's squad of ten men was hand-picked, mostly from two championship high school aggregations. Four team men played together on Brooklyn's leading high school team. Three others, all brothers, were the mainstays of Maine's Waterville High squad which copped 46 straight wins in three years. Five were elected to New York's all-metropolitan team.

Coach Moe Berg asserts that this will be the first real test of his quintet's undefeated record. "Their team, except for Deegman, their pivot, who is 6 feet 4 inches, doesn't reach much above 6 feet, and our height may do the trick. I've been amazed by the squad's improvement during the past three weeks. I hope to continue to be amazed."

The Garden's sometimes mystifying glass backboards got battered by the Crimson in a one hour practice session Wednesday. Thursday, fluidity in their shifting man to man defense, sorely lacking so far, made its first appearance in a scrimmage against the Varsity.

Berg will board the same starting team with which he began the season, with Jim Gabler reassuming his left forward position.