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Although Middlebury outscored the Crimson from the floor, Coach Floyd Wilson's squad won the game from the free-throw line, setting 18 out of 24, against 7 out of 12 for Middlebury. The lead changed hands nine times in a game that left Harvard ahead 39-36 at half-time...
...Brooks scored for the winners but Smith countered for Harvard. The Crimson missed four shots in a row before Beck got the ball and pushed it in. A layup and a foul by Forest Hansen brought the Crimson within one point of a tie, but a free-throw by Tom Holt with half a minute left to play ended the threat...
Stranahan's opponent in the final round was a 24-year-old Italian immigrant's son named Salvatore ("Sam") Urzetta. Sam had achieved a small measure of fame as a basketball player with St. Bonaventure last year; he was the U.S. free-throw champion. As a golfer, Sam was also pretty good around his home town of Rochester, N.Y. He had won the New York State Amateur Championship in 1948, and last year, when the U.S. Amateur was played in Rochester, he gained the third round before an admiring flock of locals. But nationally, he was a nonentity...
...long time the actual score was Broberg 10, Harvard 4. The 185 pound star from Torrington, Connecticut simply couldn't miss from any spot on the floor. He rang up six consecutive gift tosses that night without having one of them even touch the rim. From the free-throw line, nine out of ten is a bad average for Indian...
...handler to wear the Crimson spangles since the start of Wes Fesler's coaching regime here. In Captain Lupien the Varsity quintet has a dependable defensive player and a sterling competitor. He gave B.U's Solly Nechtem a tough fight, never allowing him to get a shot within the free-throw area, and Lupe held his Wesleyan foe scoreless...