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Last year, the Kenyon student continued, Harrison's team was 25-3 and often packed as many as 2000 fans into the 1800-seat gymnasium. Harrison advocates a fast-break offense: his most recent team scored more than 100 points 11 times, averaging 98.6 points per game. Kenyon ranked 19th among the nation's small colleges last year...
Harvard beat Brown narrowly in January when the Bruins' top gunner, Billy Reynolds, blew a fast-break layup. Reynolds hurt Harvard from the outside that night, and he got offensive help underneath from 6-6 Steve Sigur...
...teams have been scoring goals against the usually impenetrable three-back Bruin defense. Dartmouth and Cornell tallied twice each. Dartmouth and Cornell tailed twice each, while allowing Brown six and five goals. Scouting reports indicate that Brown has switched its playing style from a control defense with fast-break scoring potential to a control offensive. The halfbacks keep the ball in the offensive zone and should apply te kind of pressure Harvard has not seen all year...
Tenacious ball-hawking and sharp passing by center half Bill Kerstetter, and aggressive tackling and long clears by sophomore fullback Karl Lunkenheimer successfully thwarted Brown's fast-break offense, though both Bruin wings were constantly left uncovered, and they occasionally threatened to slip through for open shots...
With Denny Lynch, Gary Borchard and Joe Deering leading the charge, the varsity went ahead at the start. Holy Cross tied the count at 14-14 after 9:40 on an upside-down drive by Connors, but good defense by Bowditch and Bill Danner produced several fast-break opportunities. Lynch's long set gave the varsity a five-point lead, 25 to 20, after about 15 minutes, but the Crusaders put on a full-court press and caught up with 3:05 left in the half...