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...Boykoff, 6 ft. 9, the tournament's tallest. When the Big Boy took wing up-court, he looked like a heron in full flight. When it came to playing basketball, there was nothing awkward about Coach Lapchick's team-or about the way Boykoff reached above the basket to bat out opponents' certain scores...
...Small Boy. While Giants Boykoff (17 points) and Komenich (20 points) battled each other almost to a standoff, Sailors was all over the court, again & again drove like a P-38 through the St. John's team to pour the ball through the basket. With two minutes to play, St. John's, eight points behind, seemed beaten. But it was not quite...
...Elis pulled even farther ahead in the second half, and here the Harvard five reached its all-season nadir. In the first ten minutes of the period, while Yale took a 35 to 27 lead, the team took exactly five shots at the basket. Every time the Varsity moved down the floor, it found a new way to lose the ball. Blind passes, stolen balls, and what passed for Eli aggressiveness all took their toll. Underneath the backboard the Crimson was helpless...
Harvard rallied after eighteen minutes had passed, and decided finally to press Yale in the backcourt. These tactics paid off, the Blue not having learned how to bring the ball up against such an apparently new device, and Frank Bixler dunked two fouls. Hugh Hyde slipped in for a basket. Mike Keene converted a layup--all within fifty seconds. But the Crimson five was still three points behind, and Jack Torgan's long-range effort as the final gun sounded still left Harvard a point behind...
Eddie Donovan was the star of the CG game, sinking the basket that sent the game into overtime and the one that iced the game. He and Saul Nechtem, former BU star will be on hand for the contest with the ROTC...