Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Silver needed a full half of basketball to realize he was back home in New York. The 6-ft. 7-in. Merrick, Long Island, resident and Harvard's leading scorer, held scoreless in the first half, dropped in 14 points and pulled down 17 rebounds as the Harvard cagers won a homecoming from Columbia last night...
...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 said he told Silver nothing special at half-time. "The man is a ball player, he realizes what he is doing," the soft-spoken New York native explained. "You point a few things out, and hope they correct it, and hey, you win a game," he said...
...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...
...Silver pulled down 26 rebounds in that game, a career high and five short of the Crimson record set in 1955 by Bob Canty. Silver leads the Harvard team in scoring with a 17.4 point - per - game average. Captain Tony Jenkins averages...