Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard basketball team rode the last-second heroics of Ernest Hardy and Bobby Johnson to a 63-60 win over Dartmouth last night at the IAB for its first Ivy League victory...
More than any other single factor in the sloppily-played game, fouls determined the outcome. Harvard controlled the first half behind the scoring of Johnson and sophomore guard Dale Dover, taking a 37-32 lead into the dressing room...
...John Ryzewic dropped a jumper and Joe Cook a free throw and then, as Harvard bumbled a series of sorties, Greg Pickering put in a shot over Hardy to shoot the Indians into a 60-59 lead with 1:52 on the clock. Gustavson missed a short shot, but Johnson came from nowhere to guide the rebound into the basket...
Dartmouth worked the ball to pickering--a 6-3 bulldozer. He went up toward the basket and the shot ran into Hardy's out-stretched hands. In a quick reflex, the Harvard junior controlled the ball. Another foul, but Johnson missed the free-throw. In the scramble that followed, Hardy picked the ball off the floor and layed it in the basket with five seconds to go to clinch the game. For good measure, he blocked the last desperation Dartmouth shot--a dangerous move...
Harvard warmed up for the Indians with an easy 90-73 stomping of Tufts Monday night. With Bobby Johnson rounding back into shape the Crimson seems primed to begin a rush at the League's first division...