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...next night, Harvard squared off with Long Beach State. The 49ers are representative of another time-honored California breed: The Poser. (Usually seen holding a skate board or a surf board.) They look great. They talk a big game. But they are not very good...
...hype and glitz, the cocky 49ers infuriated their coach, Seth Greenberg--a deadringer for Douglas Brackman of L.A. Law. They boasted a lot. They joked around a lot. But they never buckled down long enough to put away the upstarts from the Ivies. Taking what Greenberg described as "an abundance of bad shots," they were outhustled from the start and no matter how often Greenberg--another non-Californian if ever there was one--yapped at his home court referees, he couldn't buy a call...
...49ers did manage to squeak out an 81-77 overtime win. To watch them celebrate, you'd think the finger-pointing, junk-talking Long Beach hoopsters had knocked off Tarkanian's UNLV squad, a big west rival...
...story of its game against Long Beach St. December 27. And it was no surprise that it was the story of overtime in the Crimson's 81-77 loss to the 49ers in the second game of the Long Beach Classic here in Long Beach Arena...
...could contribute to victory. On top of all that, Holtz is widely regarded as one of the game's finest technicians, along with Joe Paterno of Penn State and Bobby Bowden of Florida State. Says Bill Walsh, who was viewed as a tactical genius while coaching the San Francisco 49ers: "Lou has great command of game situations and the game itself...