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II WINNfNC CltOWD HELPS A WINNING TEAM concluding eight battles, led only twice at intermission. It was the ability to produce a strong offensive in the waning moments of RIPPING THE: CORDS their engagements that allowed the Terrors to don the crown of. the Mason-Dixon Conference. Fast colorful action-a score per minute Opening the campaign with three pre- Christmas games, Western Maryland dropped March 11 ... Homewood Fieldhouse, Balti- two out-of-conference contests to Georgetown more-A fighting, aggressive Green Terror and Dickinson; but rallied to nose oul squad matched baskets with the Loyola Grey- hounds in the final play-off game to deter- mine the first Mason-Dixon Conference titleholder. Behind 20 to 16 at the hall-way point, the Western Maryland five rallied to Lie the count 22-a II, but then fell back 35 to 25, with only ten minutes left in the Fray. IL was here that the team exhibited its usual driving finish swiftly closing the gap to whip Loyola 39-38. Previously the Terrors had defeated Washington College 38 to 37 to advance 1.0 the final round. These two games were typical of the en- tire campaign which showed a record or eleven wins in nineteen encounters in open competition; and the conference record of ten triumphs against four setbacks. In the twenty- one games played, Coach Bruce Ferguson's cagers found themselves ahead at the half- way mark on but eight occasions; and in the 106