Crimson Five Tops Brown, 73-59, Hosts Tough Yale Squad Tonight

The Crimson basketball team whipped woefully inept Brown last night, 73 to 59, but Harvard's lacklustre performance may bode ill for tonight's game with Yale.

Keith Sedlacek scored seven points in the first five minutes of play which propelled the Crimson to a quick 13-6 lead. The Bruins never threatened. Harvard pulled away to a 39-23 halftime lead, expanded the lead to 20 points in the second half, then coasted home.

Sedlacek, with 19 points, was the Crimson's leading scorer; Merle McClung had a sub-average 14, and Leo Scully also had 14.

Coach Floyd Wilson tried a new offense for last night's game, employing forward Barry Williams at the high post. Theoretically, Williams would get the ball and feed off to either Sedlacek or Scully. But all the high post seemed to accomplish was to weaken McClung's effectiveness and enable Williams to draw a lot of fouls. Throughout the game he passed off for only a handful of baskets.

Strategy Not The Best

The strategy was ill-conceived and poorly executed; if Wilson has any thoughts of using the high post against Yale tonight, he'd better forget them. The Elis could have beaten Harvard by 20 points last night.

When the two teams met at New Haven last month, sensational Bulldog forward Rick Kaminsky scored 31 points and paced Yale to a 75-62 win.

The Elis are tough and they'll be fighting hard tonight, since a victory will keep their chances for the Ivy basketball crown alive. Yale's attack is centered around Kaminsky, a 6-1 forward who is the second leading scorer in the League behind Princeton's Bill Bradley. But unlike Princeton, Yale is not a one-man outfit. Eli guards Denny Lynch and Bob Trupin are one of the classiest backcourt combinations in the League.

To pull an upset, the Crimson will have to capitalize on its superior rebounding, get some good outside shooting to permeate the Yale zone, and use a tough zone defense themselves--Yale is murder against a man-to-man.