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Princeton Basketball Game Will Be on TV

The Harvard-Princeton basketball game on February 16 will be televised as one of twelve Eastern collegiate games of major interest to be shown throughout the season.

Arrangements were announced by Asa S. Bushnell, director of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic conference. Bushnell has not yet named the network, although he said the telecasts will being at 2 p.m. on Saturdays.

The broadcasts, Bushnell explained, are part of a "package" program which will enable fans to see the top basketball teams in the East, as well as the eight Ivy League teams.

The Yale-Dartmouth game opens the series on December 15 while another Ivy League game, which has not been named, will close the program on March 9. The Cornell-Pennsylvania game on February 9 will also be broadcast.

The last Harvard athletic event to be televised was 1955's Dartmouth football game. It was chosen for CBS's game of the week series.

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