McClung Should Set Scoring Record As Quintet Faces Dartmouth Tonight

The Crimson basketball team closes its season at Dartmouth tonight, but the game's only excitement will come when Merle McClung shatters several all-time Harvard scoring records.

McClung has tallied 396 points to date and tonight will become the fourth player in Crimson history to top 400 for a season. With 13.9 point per game, the 6-3 junior center has already assured himself of the highest season scoring average ever achieved at Harvard. If he turns in an average performance tonight, he will establish school records for most points scored in Ivy League play and most field goals in a season.

Indians Weak

The game itself should be pretty dull, since the Indians have an astonishingly inept basketball team. Dartmouth has won two of 24 games, and is still winless in Ivy play.

Forward Dave Blaine sports a 13.5 scoring average, a 39 per cent field goal record, and a 57 per cent free throw mark. He's their star--which should give you an idea of Dartmouth's caliber.

A victory tonight will give the Crimson a 12-10 mark for the year--and Coach Floyd Wilson's first winning season since 1959-60. The team, however, will still remain ensconced in sixth place in the Ivy League, with six victories in 14 games.

Wilson will probably start McClung, Bob Inman, Barry Williams, Keith Sedlacek, and Leo Scully. Inman and 6-6 reserve forward Fran Martin will be ending their Harvard basketball careers tonight.

Tigers vs. Quakers

In the big showdown of the Ivy race tonight, league leading Princeton plays at Penn. A win for the Tigers will give them their second straight championship. The Quakers, however, may pull a surprise, which would create a three-way tie for the title and necessitate a playoff among Penn, Princeton, and Yale.

The Tigers come into tonight's game with a 9-2 Ivy League record for the season, marred only by losses to Columbia and Harvard. Yale and Penn are tied for second at 8-3.