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...Clifford, Harvard 3-0 22 17 2.05 McOsker, Harvard 2-0 24 2/3 22 2.19 Rodgers, Navy 3-1 22 1/3 25 2.31 Acosta, Columbia 5-1 49 41 2.39 Gronowski, Cornell 4-0 33 34 2.45 DeMarco, Dartmouth 3-2 35 35 2.57 Backus, Columbia 4-1 27 2/3 25 2.93 Thomas, Navy 4-2 39 1/3 40 3.20 Leonard, Penn 2-1 25 24 3.24 Scully, Army 1-3 27 26 4.00 Dutkowsky, Cornell 3-2 35 1/3 46 4.33 Pryor, Yale...
Harvard drew first blood and looked well on its way to its thirteenth straight triumph in the second inning when Charlie Santos-Buch led off with a bunt attempt that Columbia third baseman Ed Backus muffed. Santos-Buch moved to third when Tommy Joyce's grounder found its way between Bart Purcell's legs, and then loped home on Rich Trembowicz's single to left to give the Crimson a 1-0 lead...
...Columbia batters without a hit, getting out of a key jam in the seventh when Columbia had men on second and third with two outs. But the Lions got their insurance run in the top half of the eight, courtesy of a long home run to left field by Backus...
Stewart made his high fastball look a little too good and Backus took him deep for the only extra-base hit of the day. "Ron made two bad pitches all day and that was one of them" Coach Loyal Park said after the game. Park said the other bad pitch had led to Wilhite's two-run single in the third...
...according to who you beat during the season. We've got to win as many as we can," he said. COLUMBIA AB R H BI Brown, r.f. 3 1 2 0 Bauld, s.s. 3 1 0 0 Murphy, Ib 4 0 0 0 Wilhite, c.f. 4 0 2 2 Backus, 3b 4 1 1 1 Purcell, 2b 4 0 0 0 McAvoy, I.f. 3 0 0 0 Ramirez, d.h. 4 0 1 0 Pacico, c. 3 0 0 0 HARVARD AB R H BI Singleton, c.f. 3 0 0 0 Pearce, 3b 3 0 0 0 Jenkins...