Basketball storing
The American student, B. Beard, set a new pro* vincial men’s basketball scoring record this season. In 18 representative games he compiled 387 points to average 21.5 points a game. The next highest were Canterbury’s two 1970 New Zealand representatives, P. Stigley and K. Hessell with 196 and 192, respectively. Of the two, Hessell finished with a slightly higher game average, 10.6. Points scored by members of the team, with games played in parentheses, were: Beard (18) 387, Stigley (19) 196, HesseU (18) 192, R. Millard (19) 170, A.
Hounsell (19) 161, S. Ferguson (14) 155, T. Guthrie (19) 150, B. Shipley (14)
109, J. Fairweather (5) 69, B. Bredahl (19) 68, L Day (8) 22, K. Luxton (5) 22. Throughout the season Canterbury played 19 games of which it won 14. It scored 1701 points, an average of 89.5 a game, and had 1340 scored against, an average of 70.5.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32715, 18 September 1971, Page 14
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