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Despite a 15-5 Big Green lead at the end of the first ten minutes of the game, the Crimson rallied as the Green shots failed to drop and Sophomore Dean Hennessey's basket with a little more than two minutes left in the half gave the Cantabs a 21 to 20 lead...
They only held it for about seconds, though. Olsen dropped in a foul shot and then a one-hander to put the Indians ahead again, 23 to 21. Dartmouth's fashy forward, George Munroe, dropped in another basket for the Green to make it 24 to 21 at the half...
Harvard got back that last basket at the start of the final half, but Olsen got hot and sparked a Green rally with four baskets. Dartmouth forged ahead to a 35 to 28 lead after five minutes of the half, but Burditt's foul shot was the only Crimson point for the next nine minutes as the Indians went out to a 49 to 29 lead. Harvard came back in the final six minutes, but the lead was too much for them to overtake...
Dramatis Personae. This was a conference such as history had never seen. The President, with debonair disregard for proverbs about eggs in a single basket, took along Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall; COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King; Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army's Services of Supply; the President's alter ego Harry Hopkins. In Africa they were joined by Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the North African AEF; by Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, deputy commander; by Major General...
Pennsylvania's attack, led by the sharp-shooting of veteran guard Larry Davis and forward Chink Crossin, who totaled 22 points between them before the evening was over, overwhelmed the slow starting Crimson. Coach Earl Brown's team couldn't seem to hit the basket that half...