Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 22, 1954

¶ At Greenville, S.C., Furman University's Franklin Delano Selvy, who already holds the three-season basketball scoring record, made two more major college records in one prodigious performance. Playing against minor-league Newberry College, 6 ft. 3 in. Forward Selvy, who shoots his high-arcing baskets with ambidextrous ease, scored an even 100 points as Furman won, 149-95. Old single-game record: 73, set by Temple's Bill Mlkvy in 1951. In addition, Selvy brought his career total to 2,197 points—43 more than the record set by Jim Lacy of Loyola College, Baltimore, in 1949.

¶ At Columbus....

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