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With about eight minutes remaining Dennis Lynch grabbed a rebound off his own backboard and hooked it in to give the Crimson a nine point lead, 49-40. Three points by the Big Green's Wilson Madden, who made seven of eight shots from the floor, and a tap-in by center Sam Barton cut the Crimson lead to four, 49-45. Then Scully went to work...
...edged bust. An A student in high school, he fretted about missing classes when the team was on the road, stayed up so late studying that his basketball suffered. In a Southern Conference tournament, Thorn fired a shot at the basket from just 20 ft. away -and missed the backboard by 10 ft. Confused and exhausted, Thorn developed insomnia and a chronic sore throat. At length, he dropped out of school for a semester-for fear of getting a C on his record. "I was so sick mentally," he recalls, "that I thought I was sick physically. Finally I called...
Crimson rebounders had the back-beards pretty much to themselves Saturday against Tufts, but tonight may be different. HC center Bob Foley (no relation to Jack "the shot") is a strong backboard man, and forward Pete O'Conner effectively assists...
With the score at 65-60, Bill Danner stole the ball and was heading for the basket when Dartmouth's Sam Barton sent him flying head-first into the wall behind the backboard. Danner, dazed, missed both his free throws. With 12 seconds left, Danner tied a Harvard record by nearly going through the other wall...
...school freshmen. Well-conditioned Ohio State uses an aggressive and disciplined "helping" defense, which often takes the calculated risk of putting two or even three players on the man with the ball. On the attack, Ohio State uses a whistling fast break that frequently ends with Lucas scaling the backboard to stuff in a rebound...