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With Princeton up by two and 25 seconds remaining, Co-Captain Chris Adkins unloaded a 25-foot fallaway prayer which bounced off the backborad and into the net to seal the Tiger victory...
...tuck, fists together in front of his face, helmet down, back parallel to the ground. "I've been winning most of the top sections," he said later, referring to unofficial split times, "so I was real smooth the first three or four turns. Then I came to the fallaway right-hander that's been giving me trouble all week. I came through at real good speed, and I just put my head down and said, 'It's a motorway from here on down ...' " That evening Bill Johnson received the first gold medal ever awarded...
Then, after a Penn basket, Williams hit a fallaway jumper from the key, followed it with a foul shot, and Sedlacek scored on a pair of free throws to put the Crimson in front...
McClung was just as impressive. After being held to eight points in the first half, he started bucketing his fallaway from the corner and his patented McClung Over-the-Head Flip, and wound up with 32 points. It was at Dartmouth last year that McClung set the all-time Harvard scoring record with 39 points...
Harvard did make one final surge in the final minutes of play. The Crimson trailed 70-60 with 4:36 left, when Merle McClung scored on a fallaway shot from the key and then sank four consecutive foul shots. That made it 71-66, and 2:44 remained...