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...team came into existence last month when Rick Barton of Quincy House qualified Harvard for the championships by sending $15 to the U. S. Volleyball Association. He signed on his roommate as player-coach and filled out the rest of the seven-man squad "with guys who like to play basketball on Saturday afternoons...
Lack of training figured in, but Barton attributed the team's mediocre performance chiefly to unfamiliarity with tournament rules and the intricacies of team play. Harvard improved with each successive round, but was no match for the powerhouses of Springfield and Yale, its last two opponents...
...Barton said that Harvard would need a full-time coach in order to complete interscholastically with the top teams in New England. There is an active intramural program, however. Last year's champion team from Eliot House was hit hard by graduation, and Barton sees little competition for Quincy in the coming season, which starts in three weeks. Six of the seven men who went to Springfield are from Quincy...
...lineman and three choices. Also seeking help in the passing department, the Denver Broncos traded Defensive End Alden Roche and one choice to the Green Bay Packers for Quarterback Don Horn and one pick, while the Eagles swapped three choices to the Detroit Lions for Quarterback Greg Barton. But the biggest deal of all was pulled off by George Allen, late of the Los Angeles Rams and presently head coach of the Washington Redskins. In one swoop, he transferred a good part of his old squad to his new city. In return for one player and seven draft choices...
Despite Quincy's domination of the "B" competition, Barton doesn't think his team would do too well in the "A" competition. The players in "A" basketball are taller, better conditioned, and more talented. "We'd do all right, though." he said...