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...netmen start their League contests with back-to-back away matches at Penn and Navy on April 13 and 14. The switch from Penn's hard surface to Navy's soft clay should provide a real challenge for the Crimson and it is likely that the general tone of the season will be readily apparent. A couple of big early wins could put Harvard in control with only Columbia a real obstacle...
...fattening up on two triumphs at Harvard's expense. On the sinister evenings of January 5 and 6 Princeton edged out the Harvard cagers, 71-70, with a convincing display of discipline and cautions basketball, and Penn completed what has come to be a "traditional" sweep of the weekend back-to-back encounters...
...Harrison's squad, Columbia, the Crimson's Saturday foe, will offer the most resistance before rolling over. The Lions under coach Jack Rohan are 4-11 for the season and 2-2 in the league. Needless to say, the two loop victories came at the expense of Cornell in back-to-back Ivy games last week, 68-59 at Columbia and 66-62 at Cornell...
Penn, on the other hand, likes to run and relies heavily on pick and roll patterns when the offense sets up. The Quakers, who are 5-2 for the year after back-to-back losses to Cineinnati and the University of San Francisco, are led by co-captains, Phil Hankinson and Craig Littlepage. Ranked 20th in the country by the UPI, Penn has not lost to the Crimson in the two team's last nine meetings...
...Harvard five will play UConn and Yale at Storrs, Conn. in a hastily-improvised affair called the Connecticut Classic on December 22 and 23. A week later, they will visit Pittsburgh, Pa, and Durham, N.C. for back-to-back games against Pitt and Duke...