Show A Hot Hof Night LaSalle Quintet Smothers B BYU YU Y U in 76 76 54 Contest PHILADELPHIA Dec Dee 9 UP A AThe The smooth and experienced LaSalle basketball team pol polished shed off Brigham Young university defending defending de de- defending de- de fending champions of the Skyline Six conference 76 54 Wednesday night The game was one half of a doubleheader Temple trounced Bucknell 82 to 40 In the other contest LaSalle dazzled th the Utah quintet with an effective floor game and sensational shooting The LaSalle team used almost the same lineup that won 20 and lost three games and played in the national InvItation invitation invitation tion tournament at New York last year It was the third victory in as many starts for or LaSalle B BY Y U has lost two games in five starts The LaSalle team led at half hall halftime halftime time 35 22 and kept the pressure on in the second half despite a continual flow low of new men into the game Joe Weight of B BY BYU Y U led a rally midway in the second half as he connected for seven straight points but LaSalles LaSalle's Foust found the range and left the westerners still trailing The LaSalle team turned in one of the best exhibitions of dead eye shooting by any team at Convention Convention Convention Conven Conven- tion hall in several years They hit 32 field goals In 79 attempts Brigham Young on the other hand connected for but 21 field shots in tries Major scoring was v evenly divided among four members of the LaSalle LaSalle LaSalle La La- Salle team team Captain Captain Joe Greenberg Greenberg Greenberg Green- Green berg with 11 Bob Ace McCann a sensational 11 Larry Foust eight and Dick Adair 10 LaSalle opened on a one-hander one by McCann and forged ahead to a 22 12 advantage Coach Charley McGlone then replaced his starters one b by one with members from last years year's once-beaten once freshman team But the change made little difference in the game as the LaSalle lead stretched to 13 points at half time n V S' La Salt RaIt a aG G F PF Pl P G F PF P 5 3 0 Wel Gr 5 1 1011 0 11 5 3 3 13 N Json Byrne 1 1012 0 1 2 3 3 3 8 Fullmer Gallager 2 2115 1 1 5 3 1 3 7 2 2206 2 0 6 1 1012 0 1 2 B Phelan 0 0 1 0 2 2115 1 1 5 4 0 1 A 8 1 1204 2 0 4 5 0 1 10 1 1022 0 l 2 2 1 1002 0 0 2 McCann 4 3 2 11 2 2014 0 1 4 Comerford 4 4 0 12 Colman 2 2115 1 1 5 21 1213 M 54 Totals 9 76 Halftime score score La La Salle 35 Brigham Young Youn 22 Free throws mUsed missed Brigham Brigham Young Young- Nelson Fullmer Durrant Clark W Weight La Salic Salle Greenberg Greenberg Gallagher McCann 3 Foust |