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...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...
Tonight's game may resemble a cross-city rivalry more than an Ivy League contest. Rohan played for Columbia in the early '50s and once coached at NYU, Sanders's alma mater. His squad features several home area stars. Starters Byrnes (Bronx, N.Y.), Hardaway (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Avery (Ridgefield, N.J.) are all locals and most of Columbia's bench hails from the tri-state area. To top it off, the name of the Columbia freshman basketball coach is...Mike Griffin...
...strong NYU foilmen were even more impressive. They whitewashed the Crimson foil team, including standout Howard Weiss...
Harvard picked up its other two victories in the epee competition, where John Hawkins and captain Eugene White each won one bout. White, one of the few bright spots for Harvard in the meet, also dropped a close bout, 5-4, to NYU star Risto Urme, NCAA epee champion and member of the Finnish Olympic team...