Word: score
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most exciting and agonizing Crimson basketball game in years. Northeastern battled from a 61-55 deficit and tied the score at 65 all with forty seconds to play. Harvard patiently worked the ball around for half a minute. But with ten seconds to go, forward John Scott was called for travelling as he attempted a routine pass to Gene Dressler. As the Huskies called time out, Cabot gym reverberated with yells, the shrieks of cheerleaders, and the blaring of a Dixieland pep band...
...seconds, and then their hot shooting guard Rich Weitzman tried a 20-foot jump shot. It hit the rim and bounced high in the air. A dozen arms groped for the ball. The Huskies' nimble forward. Harry Barnes, won the battle for possession and tapped in the winning score as the buzzer sounded...
...Sedlacek scored nine points in the first quarter of play as Harvard amassed a 19-10 lead. But when Harvard's shuffle offense bogged down and Sedlacek couldn't get free to take any shots, the Crimson's lead shrunk. No one else on the team was shooting well from outside. Several long jump shots by Weitzman and superb playmaking by 5-7 Jim McNaught enabled Northeastern to tie the score at 29 all at halftime...
Dressler admits the rest of the Ivy League has more talent, but he expects Harvard to get along on esprit. "We don't depend on one person to score," he says. "Reporters have predicted we'll fall apart if Williams ever fouls out, but that wouldn't dishearten us. Charley McMonagle could go for Barry, and Scott's been rebounding really well...
Harvard's basketball team beat Holy Cross for the first time in 35 years Saturday, by a score of 76 to 67 in Worcester Auditorium. The game contained some ominous portents for the Crimson's future, but the story of the victory was a magnificent performance by guard Gene Dressler, who seems to have matured into a first-class ballplayer...