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...Mike Davis, the Cornell high scorer who stung the Crimson with 20 points. The key to the Cornell comeback was not Davis's nor any other Cornell man's heroics but the sharp eyes (or imaginations) of the referees, who sent both Glenn Fine and Brian Banks to the bench with five fouls before the four-minute mark. Harvard's game depends on this pair of stars and it missed them dearly down the stretch...
...play much better offensively, tallying only 39 points for the half. Worse was the fact that Banks and Fine had drawn three fouls apiece. Coach Frank McLaughlin was forced to keep Banks, the game's top rebounder with ten, and Fine, the team's playmaker, languishing on the bench...
...bench minor ensued, as did Phil Evans's tenth tally of the year to make it 4-1 with 1:19 left to play in the second period. Freshman Rick Benson and Jack Hughes garnered assists on the power play score, which left Harvard three goals down with a period to play...
Everybody on the Crimson bench except the coaches and managers saw playing time in the first half as Harvard tried to wear down the Judges. Twelve hoopsters made it into the scoring column to combine for a blistering 62 per cent field goal average at halftime...
Doug Mason gave Bixby a breather by stepping in at 150-lbs. against Lowell's Steve Rich. Mason proved to be more than Rich could handle as The Harvard grappler sent Rich back to the bench in 4:25 with matburns on his shoulders...