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Silver snapped out of his recent scoring slump and dropped in 17 points and collected 12 rebounds. Jenkins was high man with 18 points and Arnie Needleman, a 6-ft. 2-in. junior, played a strong defensive game against Columbia's Mark Hardaway and finished with 12 points. Hardaway, leading scorer for Jack Rohan's Lions, ended up with 17 points and six rebounds...
After a first half 35-35 tie, the opening three minutes of the second stanza were characterized by the same back-and-forth action of the first half. But at 16:36, Needleman, running full tilt, took a pass from junior guard Steve Selinger and canned an unmolested fast-break layup. Ken Wolfe followed with another layup; Jenkins added a jumper and the Crimson owned a lead they would never relinquish...
Sanders began to substitute early in the going, playing reserves Len Adams, Arnie Needleman and Mike Griffin before the first half's close...
...Yorkers Ken Wolfe and Mike Griffin have brothers who play for the Lions; Silver and Arnie Needleman are from the Empire State and coach Tom Sanders played at NYU and grew up in the city. The freshman basketball coach at Columbia is named Mike Griffin, and present head coach Jack Rohan was an assistant coach at NYU when Sanders starred there...
Sanders played his collegiate basketball at NYU and grew up on 116th Street and Sixth Ave. in New York. Lou Silver (Merrick, N.Y.), Arnie Needleman (Wantagh, N.Y.), Ken Wolfe (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Mike Griffin (Port Washington, N.Y.) are no strangers to the bright lights of the Big Apple...