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Unpredictability set in after that, however, and the Crimson--despite Dave Acorn's scoring and Fred Herold's strong goaltending--played poorly. By November, there were reports of dissatisfaction among the players with Ford's coaching...
This is the final year to make good for the group of players who, as upstart sophomores in 1974, led Harvard to a 7-4-2 record and a berth in the NCAA regional playoffs. Seniors Bullard (one co-captain), Acorn (the other), Chris Saunders, Eric Zager, Mike Lohrer and George Grassby have but one season left to prove that they are the stuff of champions...
...team's training camp during early September at St. George's School in Newport, R.I. Lohrer, junior fullback Kevin Jiggetts, senior midfielder Harold Martin and sophomore forward Dave Eaton have all been sidelined with nagging injuries. These injuries look like mere nosebleeds when compared to the temporary loss of Acorn to knee surgery he underwent during August...
...activists are doing today. Burlingham's thesis is stated between the lines: "I had heard from other friends that changes were taking place in America." He then goes on to document some of these changes in a somewhat thorough manner. He shows how Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), for instance, is working on a community basis to get utility rates lowered. But Burlingham's emphasis is strange. "Politics as if people mattered" turns out to be how picking the utility rates issue was "fortuitous for the organization [ACORN]," how other so-called radical organizations are involving, more activists...
Apparently, the coaches also overlooked the outstanding play of Harvard fullback Kevin Jiggetts. "Kevin really got burned," said Acorn. "He turned in at least six outstanding performances and didn't even get honorable mention...