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...Cornell defeat moved the Red and Blue back to second place in the Ivy League, while the Brownmen, with a record of two wins and five losses, are next to last, just ahead of Yale. Penn can't afford to drop a game if it wants to stay in the running...
Saturday night things were vastly different. In a Merriwell finish which harked back to the Princeton contest of two weeks before, the Brownmen rallied from a seven-point deficit with five minutes to play. Four successive scores by Dean Hennessey, who totaled 16 points to take sixth place in the Ivy League scoring race, brought the Crimson within two points of the Light Blue, paced by Walt Budko, giant center, who leads the league...
...Brown started an all-Sophomore five, a replica of last year's Freshman team, and the visitors hopped out to a 6 to 4 lead. The regulars took over after five minutes, and with Frank Bixler finding the range on a wide variety of shots, the Brownmen led 19 to 16 at the half...
Last winter an equally meek Crimson five met an equally high rated Indian quintet and the Brownmen took a Han-over scaip to the tune of a 49 to 36 beating. But that game was played on the floor of the Indoor Athletic Building, not in the lair of the Green aborigine. And a team playing on its home court is conceded a ten point edge in all the best wagering circles. When the Brownmen journeyed to Hanover last winter, after that sensational upset, the results were disastrous. Ten unbelieving Crimson cagers limped home, beaten...
Aided by the height of center Rick Littell, the Red and Black cagers, with set shots and tip-ins, pulled out into an early lead of 14 to 8. After ten minutes of play, the Brownmen switched their tactics to a man-to-man defense, and things began to look...