Harvard's basketball team built up a ten-point lead in the first six minutes of play and stayed in front all the way to defeat New Hampshire, 91 to 82, last night in the IAB.

The victory was a fairly auspicious start to the Crimson's season. New Hampshire is no titan of the hoop world, to be sure, but Harvard shot well and committed surprisingly few ball-handling errors for an early-season game. And coach Floyd Wilson seems to have come up with a couple of good players in sophomore Bob Beller and George Neville.

Six Harvard players scored in double figures. Gene Dressler led the team with 20 points and Barry Williams had 19. Keith Sedlacek scored 18 points, but had an unusually bad night, hitting only 7 of 20 shots. Overall, the Crimson sank 44 per cent of its field goal attempts and 27 of 36 foul shots.

With the score 2-2, Neville swished a jump shot from the foul line, Dressler stole the ball and scored on a fast break, then connected on a 15-footer. Neville swished a jumper from the key and Sedlacek scored from inside after a beautiful thread-the-needle pass from Dressler. That made the score 12 to 2. The Wild-cats whittled the margin to six points early in the second half but never came any closer. Harvard's largest lead was 17-62 with about five minutes to play.

Scott Gets 17 Rebounds

John Scott and Williams grabbed 17 and 14 rebounds respectively; both teams grabbed 47 rebounds overall. The Crimson's lack of height was no real handicap last night, since the Wildcats didn't have a player over 6-5 who could move without falling on his face.

Dressler played a superb game, hitting 7 of 14 shots and constantly harrassing the New Hampshire offense. Beller was five-for six; he has extremely quick moves, and was able to drive effectively through the Wildcats' defense.

The one unencouraging aspect of the came was the shuffile offense which Harvard employed. The Crimson seldom scored by patiently setting up a play. This team likes to shoot, and most of Harvard's points came when somebody stopped in a shot from outside. And the shuffile offense frequently left the Crimson's "big men," Scott and Williams, out of position to compete for rebounds.

In the preliminary, Harvard's freshman team eeked out a 111-30 victory over Brandeis. (No, that's not a misprint). The Crimson has six players over 6-5 and scads of former All-State high school stars. Coach George Harrington was able to put in his second and third teams without harming the Crimson attack a bit.