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...Elis, who have won just three times this winter, had assumed a 16-point lead in the first half. Behind the shooting of Bill Carey and Mike Griffin, however, the Crimson fought back, and by halftime the lead stood in Harvard's favor...
Banks was hardly the lone Harvard star Mike Griffin played a great game as the Crimson floor leader, accounting for 14 points, many off-balance shots which somehow found the basket...
Harvard's one moments of glory occurred in the first fifteen minutes of action, when the Crimson was able to keep pace and managed to forge a 24-24 deadlock. Then, for one of those strange reasons that only basketball coaches are able to explain, Mike Griffin, the lone Harvard performer who knows the meaning of offensive penetration, was pulled from the game...
Only the driving lay-ups of Carey and the free throw shooting of Silver 111 of 121 allowed Harvard to remain within shouting distance. No other player was able to more than points, and particularly harmful to the Crimson cause was the fact that Mike Griffin could manage just two baskets in 13 attempts before fouling out late in the game...
After a jump ball, which Doc Hines controlled for the Crimson, Harvard set up for a final shot, which Griffin missed. Meanwhile, Silver was fouled underneath...