Special credit should not be meted out to any individual man, as the squad worked well together and functioned as a unit. Forwards Al Baylacq, Paul Jaeger and Walt McCarthy, center Arvid Hedman, and guards Leo Walsh and Captain Phil Garcia were the six players who performed the iron man roles. Utility work was afforded by Tony Franusich, Bob Jones, Andy Carneglia and Curt Knifsend (TheDon).
The 1936 edition of the Don freshman basketball squad this week completed its first fortnight of practice, minus its regular coach, Bob Kleckner. Since Kleckner is at present busily engaged in whipping the frosh gridders into tip-top shape for their final battle of the season, Varsity Coach Wally Cameron has been doing double duty, supervising activities of both varsity and frosh hoopsters. Kleckner is expected to take over some time next week. However, the boys at present are merely going through the fundamentals, and are simply polishing up on their dribbling, passing and shooting. Thus, when Kleckner steps in next week, his frosh will be fully ready to begin practice in earnest. Kleckner, this season, will probably attempt to build his aggregation around two classy forwards, Al Baylacq and Tony Franusich, but evidently will have to do a bit of juggling if there is to be any real strength in the back court. Baylacq, a short, stocky little fellow, is a real ball-hawk, and is a former All-City forward from Polytechnic High, and last year dumped more balls in the hoop than anyone else in the league. Tony Franusich, another All-City man from Lowell, has also shown well in the preliminary work-outs, and is expected to step into a first- string berth at center without a great deal of effort. Nevertheless, these two, though they look to be the best of the freshman crop at the present tune, will have to keep stepping to retain their respective posts (TheFoghorn).
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