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VARSIT\' BASKETBAl.L SQUAD Varsity Basketball HE basketball season of 1930 was apparently not a very successful one as Western Ivlaryland won only one game during the entire year. It was successful, however, in that a team which was almost Jacking in basker., ball fundamentals, under the able tutelage of "Bill" Pelton, developed into a small but powerful aggregation, combining speed and deception with the same type of fighting qualities that have often brought Western Maryland teams from defeat to victory, to make it a respected opponent of any collegiate basketball team. One of the first moves of Pelton, and probably the best, as the resultnnt games showed, was to change Wellinger from forward to it guard position. Captain Engle was the other guard, and it fell to his lot as the most experienced and constsrent player to serve as a balancing influence upon the team. Baker was shifted to forward from guard, and worked well with Woolley, who was the outstanding shot of the team. Hamill from the start grabbed off the center job, and though rather erratic in his passing became adept toward the end of the season, both in passing and in obtaining the tip_off. The remainder of the small squad was composed of Lamb, Lawrence, KohOUT, Wilker, and Smith. This squad, supplemented by the strong Freshman team, should prove a formidable contender for the 1931 State Championship. The team will lose through graduation the services of Captain Engle and of Smith. page one hundred ninety-eight