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...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...
...Crimson went ahead in the second half when Silver and Jenkins combined to sweep the boards and pulled the cagers away from a 28-23 half time deficit. Rohan's small squad couldn't withstand the offensive onslaught, and folded...
Columbia held a five-point lead at halftime on the basis of a stingy zone defense that stymied Silver. Rohan used ten players in the first half, and Lewers scored eight points, contributing heavily to the Lions' success...
...Crimson sports a two-game winning streak and stands 5-10 overall and 3-2 in the Ivy League. The Lions have stumbled on the Yellow Brick road to success 15 times and can show only 2 wins. Jack Rohan's sophomore-dominated squad is 1-5 in the Ivy League...
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...