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...Columbia game, played Saturday night at the New Yorkers' match-box gym, kept a full house worried up until the final six minutes, at which point Budko started hitting. With Hauptfuhrer easing in 75 percent of his shots, and Rockwell clicking off long sets, the Crimson trailed only 35 to 31 at the half, and subsequently pulled to within one point of the EIL leaders...
...five must have at least two men of Elmore Morgenthaler's proportions. To be sure, Bill Prior at six-foot-five is no midget, but then almost every good basketball team in the country has a similarly linear man holding down the pivot slot. For example, Columbia's Walt Budko matches Prior's height inch for inch, and the centers in the other half of the Arena double-header--Providence against St. Anselm's--both were taller...
...first three league players eclipsed the individual scoring record of 180 points, set by Dartmouth's Gus Broberg in 1940. Besides Budko, who totalled 191, they were Tony Lavelli, of Yale with 188, and Dartmouth's Ed Leede, with...
Chink Crossin, of Penn, finished in fourth place with 172 points, four markers ahead of the Crimson's George Hauptfuhrer. The Varsity center's 71 field goals topped every other player in the league, but Hauptfuhrer's 26 fouls, in comparison with Budko's 57 and Lavelli's 54, probably cost him the individual crown...
...facts and figures: Individual Scoring Player G F P Budko, Columbia 67 57 191 Lavelli, Yale 67 54 188 Leede, Dartmouth 68 48 184 Crossin, Pennsylvania 68 36 172 Hauptfuhrer, Harvard 71 26 168 Lawry, Princeton 54 48 156 Mariaschin, Harvard 55 41 151 Colberg, Pennsylvania 55 25 135 Marshall, Columbia 53 27 133 Vogel, Columbia...