COLUMBIA HOOPSTERS DEFEAT CRIMSON FIVE

Playing better basketball than has been played at any time this season, the University quintet went down to defeat at the hands of a powerful Columbia five on Monday, December 21, by a score of 31 to 22, Columbia, intercollegiate champions last year and previously unbeaten this season, met much stiffer opposition than it has expected in the Crimson aggregation, and had to muster up all its strength to come out on the long end of the score.

The Crimson's revamped team played inspired basketball to build up a lead of 15 to 10 in the first half and to cling of its slender lead throughout the greater part of the final period. However, with four minutes left to play. Columbia knotted the count at 21-21 and scored the winning points to maintain its undefeated record.

The Harvard quintet has no games scheduled for this week, but meets a team from Mexico on Tuesday, January 12, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday, January 15. Games away are scheduled with Navy. Haverford, Brown, and Yale.