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Patience, a commodity in short supply for the Crimson this winter, seemed to have returned to the squad in the early part of the game. Long jumpers by guards Tom Mannix and Bob Taylor opened the scoring before Yale pulled even at eight...
Dixon followed the assist with a three-point play, and Mannix hit another long jump shot for what was to be the biggest lead of the half, 17-9, as the game neared the one-quarter mark...
Play moved toward the sloppy and sluggish, but surprising rebounding by Mannix, some offensive spark by Dixon--despite a bothersome tendency toward the bad shot--kept the Crimson ahead by two-to-five point margins in the middle going of the first half...
After a needless Mannix foul allowed Yale to tie the score with 2:45 left, the teams traded baskets until the authorities pasted Harvard's Tom Clarke with a technical foul that cost the Crimson cagers three points. But Crimson captain Bob Allen hit two foul shots to knot the game at 41-41--a fitting close to the foul-filled half...
Junior Mark Harris led the team with 19 points, his best total this year, and Tom Mannix followed with 12, but neither man made up for a Lion attack that featured Curt Maloney's 25 points...