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Show GARDEN GALLOPS 1 Oregon Slaters Finally Lose; IIYU Trips Bulls NEW YORK, Dec, 71 (AP) Oregon Ore-gon State is the latest major college quintet to quit the ranks of unbeaten teams following its 6O-&0 defeat by Long Island university In the first half of an Intsrsectlonal double-header double-header at Madison Square Garden before Is. 422 fans last night. The setbsck waa the Beavers' first after 10 straight triumphs against wsst coast Independents. In the opener and more exciting atruggls. New York university gained some revenge for Its unexpected defeat de-feat by Oregon last Monday by dumping Colorado, 70-M. It was the fourth win in five starts for tha Violets and the , third consecutive defeat for tha Buffaloes, who were runner-up to Wyoming in the Big Seven conference last winter. Colorado Colo-rado haa vet to win this season, having hav-ing been beaten by Temple and San Francisco. ... Peer Start Oregon State, off to a poor start, opened the second half trailing by 14 points. 81-17, but started to click lata In the period to pull within five points at the middle mark. LIU, led by Die Holub, - who scored 24 points, pulled away to an 11-polnt margin, but the Beavers closed fast to cut the Blackbirds' lead almost In half. Although NYU was never seriously serious-ly threatened after the first two minutes, when It trailed, s-2, the Buffaloea never atopped trying. Behind Be-hind 11 point at the half, the Buffaloes Buf-faloes twice n eared to within nine points, but a nine-point scoring spree midway In the second hsif ended any hopee Colorado had at winning. The spree gave the Violet Vio-let a 30-point .lead, 40-29, and enabled en-abled them to coast ths rest of ths way. Lee Robblna, of Colorado, 'who failed by one to' tie the Garden record rec-ord for foul hooting, led the scorer of both teams with 23 points on eeven baskete and eight free throws. Ray Lumpp paced ths winners with 15 points. Plsyers Battle The game waa enlivened by a personal per-sonal encounter between Robbins snd Don Form an of N Y U a minute before the final busser. Robbins, who hsd drawn IB fouls against him, an unusually high total, took exception ex-ception to the last one, administered adminis-tered by Forman Just aa he wss scoring ths last of his 23 points. Hs leaped at Forman, who had fallen to the floor and the two started throwing punches at each other. Players of both teams cam streaming stream-ing out on the court, but the officials offi-cials quickly stepped in and restored order. The upshot waa that Forman waa banished from the gsme and Robblna was given two fres throws Instsad of one. |
