Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-25

ming over all opposition on the
basketball court.
The Trainers reeled OF 80
straight victories before tasting
defeat. And a large measure of
that success could be attributed
to Dutch Usilaner. AS coach. he
was credited with being the first
to employ the fast break and
court press among area cagers.
Usilaner. after a short stretch
at Anacostia, is back at Tech and
marking time until approval of
a transfer to District Teachers
College.
Meanwhile. he keeps his hand
in by coaching basketball at
Bulls.
Bulls has a modest nine game
winning streak going. An OBJ
server at a recent game saw IN
this team the same fast-breaking
tactics as employed by the Teen
club Of l950-52.
How do the two teams COM
pare, Usilaner was asked. There
was a hesitancy before a reply
Its hard to say" he hedged.
tive only had this present bunch
IA half season. The Tech boys
I handled three years.
But I'll admit one thing"
Usilaner said, breaking out with
"a big grin, that Tech team was
my favorite. II we'd had one
more tall boy in the lineup I'm
convinced we could have beaten
some area college teams"
Referred to at times as the
fabulous ive." the team had
such sharpShooters as Babe Mar
shall, now at District Teachers;
Smoky Herman. Joe Cav, Bill
Breen and Frank Sullivan. Sui
Ivan was the tallest at 6-foot-1.
It's a woodworking bunch
Usilaner has going for him now,
And they've knocked of a few
tough clubs in that streak
including freshman teams Of
American and Maryland univer-
sites and Montgomery Junior
College.
Oddly, Bulls won its first
eight games all by a score in the
DOS. In the ninth they got fired
up and hit for SO points.
+. The firing" is being done by
Dick Brown. Dick Kepley, Jay
Metzler, Frank Delano and Bill
Furey. John Kralles is the first
line replacement.
Brown. 6-foot-3. was an ALL
Metropolitan selection by The
Star at Montgomery Blair High
last year and compiled a l5.2
average. He was a big factor in
his team taking the Maryland
State. Class A championship. He
is used to being on a winning
team. Blair went undefeated in
% games last season.
Kepley, 6-foot-7, was with
Jefferson Senior High of Roanoke
last year, the Virginia State,
Group I titlists. He was the top
scorer in the State with a fancy
29.7 average.
Metzler. 6-foot-4. is from
Mount Joy. Pa; Delano, who
Usilaner says is the Babe Mar
shall type player. is 5-foot-10
and halls from Philadelphia.
F'urey. 5-foot-8. is from Cape
May. N. j.. and Kralles. a six
footer. is from Rochester. N. Y.
This team hardly will accom-
plish the featS of the Tech squad
For one thing, the Bulls boys
are prepping for college and have
only one season. But while they
are at it they are playing a d.
versified brand Of basketball.
One day they'll play a high
school team, using high school
rules such as eight-minute quar-
tiers ana a 6-foot lane on foul
shots. The next afternoon 1t is
a college frosh or service team
with Commute halves and H.
foot lanes.
This bunch is just beginning
to come around to my style of
coaching" Usilaner says.
What he probably meant was
they are beginning to run in high
gear.
USilaner coached the Tech
track team to the Interhigh title
in 1912 and Anacostia to the East
Division title in the league last
year. With that kind of a back
ground. he could hardly keen
from putting out a fast stepping
basketball team.