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The men's basketball team closed the season with a pair of games in Thompson Arena. After the heavyweight crew team installed the floor for the first time in four years, Coach Reggie Minton's squad lost to Columbia (who shot 75 percent from the floor) and then came back to drill Cornell, 82-66, and ruin the Big Red's Ivy title hopes in the process.

But the story is the play of Dartmouth's senior co-captains, Paul Anderson of North Dakota and Brian Burke of Rhode Island. Anderson (left, in action against UNC) pumped in 31 points against Cornell to finish as the third-leading scorer in school history, while Burke (below) added 20 to cross the 1,000 point plateau.

As an added bonus, they were both named Dartmouth's most valuable players. And both were selected first team All-Ivy only the second time that Dartmouth has enjoyed two first team picks in the same year. Rudy LaRusso '59 and Chuck Kaufman '60 were chosen in 1958-59.

Also a second-team Academic All America, Anderson finished with 1,465 points, never missing a game in the process. His 638 rebounds placed him fourth on the Dartmouth career chart.

Burke had 1,014 points in four years, despite missing parts of two seasons. He was only the 14th Dartmouth player to crack 1,000 points.

Ironically, sophomore guard Joe Kilroy established a record for assists in a season on the same play that Burke scored his 1,000th point. Kilroy, from Philadelphia, finished the year with 125.