Green Stops Varsity, 68-59, As Fairley Controls Boards

A corporation of Dartmouth basketball players took controlling interest in the Blockhouse backboards Saturday night, collecting 51 rebounds in the way of dividends, to defeat the varsity basketball team, 68 to 59.

Chief stockholder: substitute junior Dick Fairley.

Fairley scored but eight points and played only half the game. But, especially in the first half, when the Crimson was missing outside shots, the 6-foot 5-inch forward made sure the varsity didn't get second shooting chances.

Fairley, who is a high jumper in the spring, couldn't have gotten much higher off the floor. Of Dartmouth's 51 rebounds, he alone accounted for 21. "We'd been waiting for him to show," said a teammate after the game.

Even a Shermen Act, however, wouldn't have helped the Crimson, for while Fairley was monopolizing the back boards, the Dartmouth guards were deadly in hitting the basket. Before the half, it was Glenn Wilson, who scored 12 points on long shots from an average distance of 25 feet out.

Double-Pivot Used

After the half, Captain Pete Geithner, playing with a tapped leg, and Toby Julian, Green coach Doggy Julian's son, took up the slack. Geithner collected ten of his 12 points in the second half, and Julian added seven important points in the last quarter.

Pre-game dope tabbed 6-8 center Paul Wisdom as Dartmouth's chief threat, so Crimson coach Norm Shepard covered him with Dick Manning, probably the varsity's top defensive "big" man. But the visitors employed a double-pivot--with Fairley as Wisdom's partner.

The combination was fatal. Even though Shepard shifted Manning to Fairley in the second quarter, and assigned Harry Sacks or Ed Blodnick to Wisdom, the "twin-centers" repeatedly managed either to score or to clear the ball out to the unerring guards, which was just as costly.

Freshmen Take 10th in Row

Blodnick, who entered the game in the second quarter, arched in six points on his accurate but peculiar push-throw shots, helping the Crimson stay close, 31 to 29, at the half. But during the third quarter, Fairley collected six, and Patter son hit for five to boost the Green advantage to 50 to 39.

In the preliminary game, coolness under pressure enabled the Yardlings to extend their win streak to ten games and hand the Green freshmen their first loss of the season, 68 to 55. Although 11 points behind in the second period, the freshmen completely dominated second-half play. High for the freshmen were Captain Bob Dolven with 26 points and Ike Canty with 13.