Basketball
Dartmouth 59, Harvard 57. Before a capacity Carnival crowd, Captain Kent Calhoun led his basketball team to a slim two- point victory over a Harvard aggregation which the Green had previously defeated in Cambridge in overtime. The crowd was loaded with Crimson supporters or, more strictly, people who cheered for Harvard, the apparent explanation being that all the miscellaneous and uninhibited visiting Yales, Princetons, Amhersts, and Harvards cheered for whatever team Dartmouth was playing against, a circumstance also noted in the hockey game. Anyhow, the Green managed to stave off a belated Harvard rally and finished in front for their second Ivy League win of the season (the other being, as noted, also over Harvard). The game was close most of the way, with the score standing at 28-all, and with the teams seldom separated by more than four or five points.
The standout for Dartmouth was again the old reliable, Fred Gieg, who dunked in a total of 18 points for his evening's work, with seven field goals and four free throws. Tied with him was the diminutive Zack Boyages, who also scored 18 points and played the best game of his college career, now drawing to a close. Boyages went in for Billy Biggs, who started but could not get going and spent the rest of the game cooling his heels on the bench. Boyages played an excellent floor game, contributing as well to the scoring as he and Gieg sank more than half of the total Dartmouth points. Sophomore Paul Wisdom had an off night, netting only seven points from his 6' 7", which is far from par for his particular performance. The bulk of the scoring all this season, indeed, has been carried by two or three men in any one game, a situation that is often fatal in these days when a winning team needs five potential scorers.
Yale 81, Dartmouth 57. The Tuesday after Carnival, the boys journeyed to New Haven and absorbed a sound shellacking at the hands of a fast-breaking Yale aggregation, which practically ran the visitors off the court. Leading from the start, the Yales, who are behind Dartmouth in the overall league standings at the moment, kept out in front until the closing buzzer. The home team led 35-23 at the half, representing a deficit that is almost impossible to overcome in a basketball game.
The sole bright and shining light for the Green was big Freddy Gieg, who scored 25 points for the evening and thereby led both aggregations in total points. He gained this very respectable total with 11 shots from the floor and three free throws. Billy Biggs and Captain Kent Calhoun were the other leaders for the Indians, with 9 points apiece, garnered before each prematurely left the game via the personal foul route. Biggs played only a little more than a quarter of the game, but his driving shots up the pivot did considerable damage while he was in there. Calhoun was hitting from the outside against the Yale zone defense, but he too was unable to finish, thereby leaving Gieg to carry the load practically single-handed. This one will just have to be chalked up to a Carnival let-down.
