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Although Columbia captured top honors in the Eastern Intercollegiate League, winning the league title and possessing in center Walt Budko the leading scorer in the circuit, the Varsity basketball team, which finished in a tie for fourth place in the league standings, managed to establish a few records of its own.
The first three league players eclipsed the individual scoring record of 180 points, set by Dartmouth's Gus Broberg in 1940. Besides Budko, who totalled 191, they were Tony Lavelli, of Yale with 188, and Dartmouth's Ed Leede, with 184.
Chink Crossin, of Penn, finished in fourth place with 172 points, four markers ahead of the Crimson's George Hauptfuhrer. The Varsity center's 71 field goals topped every other player in the league, but Hauptfuhrer's 26 fouls, in comparison with Budko's 57 and Lavelli's 54, probably cost him the individual crown.
Captain Saul Mariaschin finished seventh in the individual race with 151 points, making Harvard the only team in the league which placed two players among the first seven.
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