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...Gene Dressler -- with fewer than five seconds, remaining in his Crimson basketball career -- faked left, took two steps to the right, hesitated and banked a ten-foot jump shot off the board. The ball plunked through the hoop, giving Harvard a 71-69 win over Dartmouth in the IAB last night...
After a respite of much more than a minute, the teams returned to action in the Dartmouth backcourt. A long inbound pass was knocked out by Dressler, and the clock -- strangely enough -- still read two seconds. After another time out, Dartmouth passed in again -- this time from halfcourt, and Joe Colgan missed a desperation jump shot at the buzzer...
With six minutes left in last night's contest, it looked like there would be no need for Dressler's heroics. Harvard held a whopping 69-58 lead, and Dartmouth's two big men -- John Duke and Gunnar Malm -- had fouled...
...Crimson stalled for 70 seconds before Chris Gallagher (17 points) drove in missed a lay up and then fouled, Dartmouth's Pete Dunlop. Dunlop missed the first on a one-and-one situation, setting the stage for Dressler's rie-breaker...
...most of the game, the Indians employed a zone defense, forcing Harvard into a standard offense with Gallagher at the low post. Against man-to-man defenses, the Crimson uses its rotating California offense. Harvard Dressler 14 Gallagher 17 Royer 14 Martell 11 Gustavson 8 Johnson 5 Beller 2 Total 71 Dartmouth Colgan 20 Sturgis 12 Malm 12 Duke 11 Felmoister 8 Mathias 3 Dunlop 2 Stableford 1 Total...