Bruins Maul Cagers, 101-86; Crimson Finishes 8-18 Season

The varsity basketball team completed its season-long nose dive to the bottom of the Ivy League Saturday night as Brown exploded for 60 second-half points and routed the hapless Crimson, 101-86.

Harvard outplayed the home-standing Bruins in the first half, hitting an impressive 63 per cent of its shots from the field and netting five more baskets than Brown.

But the Crimson cagers were in foul trouble right from the beginning of the contest. The Bruins outscord Harvard 13-1 from the charity stripe to more than make up for the Crimson's fine shooting.

Satch Sanders's charges trailed by as many as five points in the early going, but made a late charge to cut the lead to two at the intermission, 41-39.

The visitors shot well again in the second stanza--55 per cent--and took a 53-52 lead after several minutes of play. But fouls continued to be Harvard's undoing. Brown worked at getting the ball inside, getting the Crimson's aggressive front line in trouble.

By the middle of the second half, Bill Carey, Muliufi Hanneman, and Doc Hines had all been tagged with their fourth personals.

"With all our big men in foul trouble, we were handicapped underneath," Carey said yesterday. "We had to lay off of them on defense and they ran right away from us."

The Bruins hit a scorching 24 of 34 shots in the second half, and rolled past Harvard for 60 points. Their margin mounted point by point toward the final, 101-86.

Carey, Harvard's senior captain, made his last varsity game a good one, swishing 12 of 15 attempts for a team-leading 25 points.

The loss brought Harvard's final record to a disastrous 8-18, with a 3-11 last-place finish in the Ivy League.