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...RAMBLINGS: Brown's Mack has had a fine season this year after missing the '77-'78 schedule when he had both legs crushed in a car accident. Fine now ranks second in the Ivy League assists column, averaging 5.8 a game. Columbia's Alton Byrd (6.8) leads the league...
...sites of Jimmy's life and early work. A polite visitor with an anxiety-dispelling Southern accent could even find and talk at relaxed length with members of the presidential family. In a three-day visit-during Christmas rush at that-I had cordial and substantial meetings with Alton Carter (Jimmy's uncle and keeper of the family tales, possessed of an excellent narrative tongue and the sweet will to use it); Gloria Carter Spann (Jimmy's nearest sister, wife to a Plains farmer and the most retiring and impressive of the circle); Miss Allie Smith (Rosalynn...
Morningside Heights has been in mourning all week over the sudden and inexplicable demise of the Lions. Columbia had its "big four" of Ricky Free, Juan Mitchell, Shane Cotner, and all-time assist leader Alton Byrd returning for the third year in a row. They had played exhilarating ball last year on their way to winning 13 of their last 15 games. The league race came down to a harem scarem finish with the Lions defeating Penn on the last weekend of the season and then losing to Princeton the next night to finish a game behind the Quakers...
...after a Dave Coatsworth-Alton Lister alteration, brought a bevy of technical fouls, the Sun Devils strung up nine unanswered points to take the lead back. They then ran away from a mystified Crimson team in the overtime period...
Last year, Penders also declared that this would be the year the Lions would win the Ivy League title. He had Alton Byrd, Ricky Free and Juan Mitchell--a rich lode of talent he had tapped in his second year--all returning. Yet Penders decided to abandon this Xanadu on Broadway for the basketball wasteland of the nearby Bronx. He took the visionary gamble, betting he would be able to recreate the Shangri-La splendor that was Fordham basketball back in the days when Digger Phelps held sway...