Word: dotson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's fate may on its ability to contain Columbia's two superstars--6-5 All-American Jim McMillian and 6-4 Heyward Dotson. In the first game, these two combined for 50 points, McMillian hitting for 29 from the outside. Dotson rebounded strongly and executing inside cuts very well...
...finish was extraordinary. Chris Gallagher--now the ninth highest scorer in Harvard history--sank two free throws to give the Crimson a 69-68 lead with 2:17 to go. On the ensuing play, McMillian fed Dotson for a layup which became a three-point play and put Columbia ahead...
...second half was a succession of scoring skeins, first by Columbia (read "Jim McMillian" or "Heywood Dotson") and then by Harvard. Dover dropped in several lunging layups which caught the backboard at a peculiar angle but then spun into the basket...
Then came a key play. Down two points, Dover faked Dotson onto the floor and drove underneath, only to miss the layup. McMillian quickly tallied a bucket to make it four points and then hit two free throws after a strange foul called on Gallagher during a torrid fight for a rebound of a missed Harvard shot...
...Columbia's awesome duo of Dotson and McMillian--who scored 50 points between them--came up with the clutch baskets and freethrows to pull out the game...