Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sophomore guard Murray Milton who was the game's high scorer with 25 points, Columbia took the lead early in the game. At the seven-minute mark with Harvard leading, 9-8, the Lions scored seven straight points and began to pull away. At one point late in the first half, Columbia led by 16 points, 33-17, but the Crimson rallied to narrow the Lions' margin 36-28 at half-time...
...handling Columbia its fifteenth loss, and thus ending its own three-game losing streak, the varsity managed to overcome the poor shooting which has hampered its play in the last few games. Though Crimson players hit for only 31 per cent in the first half, the team's shooting improved considerably in the second half to give the varsity a respectable game average of 38 per cent from the floor. Surprisingly enough, however, the Lions managed to out-rebound Harvard in both halves...
...second half turned into a see-saw battle with the Crimson cutting into Columbia's lead only to have the Lions pull away again. With nine minutes gone in the second half, after Dave Grayer, who played the game in place of Bob Bowditch, had fouled out, Columbia increased its lead from four to eight points and maintained the margin until the closing minutes...
...varsity won the tap after Columbia missed a foul shot which would have iced the game, giving Harrington a chance to score his most important points of the evening...
...Crimson wrestlers will try for their third straight win this afternoon against Columbia in New York. Last Saturday they swept over Dartmouth, 27-3, although coach Robert Pickett warned after the meet that the team still had "a lot of work...