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Some people criticized coach Bob Harrison for going into a stall with 4:58 seconds left on the clock and Harvard leading by one point. It was certainly a questionable decision. However, if the Crimson was well coached it would have been up by 15 or 20 points at that juncture in the contest. The problem is not so much individual decisions that Harrison may or may not make, but is his failure to discipline the team in order to play consistently The team improving but should have been playing at the level they are at now against Indiana...
Balanced scoring, a good team shooting percentage, and a rebounding edge of 18 all contributed to evening out the season record of coach Bob Harrison's squad at 6-6. The Crimson posted five players in double figures and were led in scoring by its guards Jim Fitzsimmons and Kenny Wolfe who collected 16 apiece. Tony Jenkins, James Brown and Floyd Lewis had 15, 12 and 11 points respectively...
...unfair. Truman frequently got advice from Pendergast, all right, but just as frequently he disregarded it. Even F.D.R. thought Truman was in Pendergast's pocket; he asked the Missouri boss to get Truman's vote for Alben Barkley as Senate Majority Leader. Truman voted for Pat Harrison, observing: "They better learn downtown right now that no Tom Pendergast or anybody else tells Senator Truman how to vote." Re-elected to the Senate in 1940, he soon launched the Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program-the Truman Committee-which was to help carry him to the White House...
With 4:58 remaining and Harvard leading 64-63 Friday night, coach Bob Harrison surprisingly ordered a stall against the Tigers. The Crimson held the ball for about a minute until substitute guard Mike Griffin was fouled. Griffin converted two free throws to give Harvard a 66-63 lead. Sophomore guard Tim van Blommesteyn came back to hit a short jumper for Princeton to narrow the gap to one, but Griffin returned the ball and drove in for a layup, giving the Crimson a 68-65 lead with 2.45 left. Tiger center Andy Rimol hit a jumper from the foul...
...Harrison decided to play for one shot but Brown was called for charging with 13 seconds left and the Tigers ran out the clock...