Word: alton
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Columbia gunslingers Alton Byrd, Juan Mitchell and Shane Cotner all come from west of the Mississippi and are joined by fellow junior Ricky Free, a Brooklynite who matriculated in bending basketball rims at Boys High. They combined to discharge a 58 point barrage. Mitchell had 18 points and Byrd stung Glenn Fine for 16 points...
About all that has changed in the Lion five in the past year is that center Elmer Love took the year off and the sophomore trio of Alton Byrd, Ricky Free and Juan Mitchell are now juniors. Free is the team's leading scorer and rebounder, even though he occasionally suits up at guard. Byrd, his fellow all-Ivy teammate, will probably shatter Columbia's career assist record against Harvard, as he is now 11 shy of the mark set by Elliot Wolfe...
...Crimson never managed to contain the fast-breaking phalanx of Lion cagers spearheaded by ballhandler Alton Byrd. Harvard's Achilles heel, though, proved to be an inability to hit from the free-throw line as both teams shot nearly 50 per cent from the field. Harvard hit only 6-16 from the charity stripe and failed to convert on four one-on-one opportunities in the first half, while Columbia sank 17-24 in the pivotal Ivy contest...
...contest would have been a classic shootout for second place in the Ivies, a roof-raising barnburner between the 4-2 Lions--led by tough guards Alton Byrd and Ricky Free--and the 3-2 Crimson, led by Brian Banks and guard Glenn Fine...
...DIED. Alton Carter, 89, President Carter's uncle and the oldest member of the Carter family; of gall bladder disease; in Americus, Ga. The mayor of Plains from 1924 to 1952, "Uncle Buddy" also ran a general store and for the past few years worked in his son's antiques store, where he was a popular raconteur...