Word: basket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overconfident and replaced his five regulars with the second team after nine minutes. Highly-touted freshman guard Calvin Dixon and classmate Lamar Flatt, who is Harvard's one legitimate big man at 6-ft., 9-in., led the resulting mayhem. The subs put the ball everywhere but in the basket...
...Flatt muffed a chance to win the game in the final moments of the second overtime. With 36 seconds remaining and Harvard down, 79-78, guard Calvin Dixon penetrated to the middle of the lane and dumped a beautiful pass to Flatt under the basket--maybe being fouled in the process. Flatt went up with it--and he might have been half-fouled, too. Fordham collected the rebound...
Fleming came up with another excellent performance, scoring a game-high 29 points, despite riding the bench with four fouls for much of the late going and all of the first O.T. Almost unobtrusively, just when Harvard needed a basket, Fleming came up with a hoop. Nine out of ten fron, the foul line didn't hurt, either...
Neither team looked particularly impressive during the contest's opening minutes. With both squads using zone presses and defenses, the ball rarely got near the basket. Led by 5-ft. 1-in. guard Mary Monahan and forward Nellie Duncan, the Quakers were the first to pull themselves together, jumping to a 9-2 lead after six minutes...
After a controversial play during which Harvard's Karen Smith ended up sitting under the UPenn basket unconsoled by a foul call, the hoopsters lost their concentration. Several opportunities to regain the lead slipped away, and with 30 seconds left, the cagers watched helplessly as the Quakers stalled their way to the two-point...