From the AP story previewing the championship game:

     The game appears a toss-up because of a thread of similarity that stretches from the teams' systems of play to identical nicknames - Indians - and a relationship between the coaches themselves.
     Both are hard-driving, fancy-passing outfits with enough height to hound the rebounds and string up airtight defenses. A supply of great sharpshooters balances the offenses.
     Everett Dean, Stanford coach, lists Dartmouth's mentor, Osborne Cowles, as 'one of the best guards to play under me.' He coached Cowles in 1922 at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.