Varsity Basketball Team Loses League Games to Lions, Bruins

For 12 minutes in the I.A.B. Saturday night the Crimson varsity five held the nation's top scoring team on even terms. Harvard's defense then fell apart, and the game turned into a scoring dual between Columbia's two spectacular pintsized guards, Ted Dwyer and Chet Forte.

Columbia won easily, 92 to 73, to add to its 87.1 points per game average.

Thursday Harvard threw away a close game to Brown, 58 to 56. Ahead by two points with 10 seconds left, the varsity lost the ball on a wild, court-length heave, and finally lost in an overtime period.

By this win Columbia remained in second place in the Ivy League race with a 4-1 record, and increased its overall total to a very commendable 12-2. Harvard's league record sank with its double defeat to 2-4, to fall into a fifth place tie with Brown and Pennsylvania, and its season's record fell to 5-5. The team has now lost four contests in a row, and five of its last six games.

Forte and Dwyer between them tallied 61 points. The fast, shifty, 5-9, 145 1b. Forte drove and scrapped his way to 29 points, about the same average which has made him the nation's second top scorer, behind Kansas's seven-foot skyscraping Wilt Chamberlain. He was outperformed by his side-kick, however, as the 165 1b. Dwyer made good on 9 of 17 shots, many from the corners, and 14 free throws for 32 points.

In the last eight minutes of the first half, the Lions tallied an incredible 33 points, to move from a one-point deficit to a commanding 54 to 35 halftime lead. Harvard slowed down the pace a bit in the second half, as Columbia settled to maintain its 19 point lead.

The Lions pulled ahead during the short spurt largely on fast breaks. Time after time the Crimson would be caught empty-handed as one of Columbia's speedy guards would be racing toward the basket to catch a long pass and dribble in for an easy basket.

In the Brown contest, the Crimson showed the effects of the exam period layoff, as it played sloppily against a team which it had earlier defeated by 45 points.