On the day before the game the doctor laid it down that no man with a temperature of 103° had any business at Madison Square Garden. He wanted ailing Coach Nat Holman of C.C.N.Y.'s basketball Beavers to watch the game by television. For silver-thatched, 53-yeaf-old Coach Holman, that was out of the question. His Beavers were going into the finals of the National Invitation Tournament as three-point underdogs to Peoria's Bradley University. Holman, who had coached good teams for 31 years without winning a national championship, intended to be right there on...
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