Word: beecroft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...champion Penn heads the first squad with two selections. Quaker Ron Haigler was named to the team for the third consecutive year and teammate John Beecroft was selected for his second consecutive year. Haigler was further honored as the Ivy League Basketball Player of the Year...
...Haigler (21 points), Henry Johnson (23 points, 11 rebounds), and Bob Bigelow (18 and 12) play so well that you'd swear they've been practicing together since the second grade. Throw in the 17-point contribution of John Beecroft, and keep in mind that All-Ivy performer John Engles is out for the season with an injury, and you quickly realize that Penn is not just another basketball team...
Sophomore Mark Lonetto has filled in nicely and All Ivy guard John Beecroft maintains his role as backcourt director of the Quaker offense, which is hitting at an excellent 51 per cent from the floor Penn also brings to town a run of seven straight wins and a thirteen game streak over Harvard...
...that seems to be Penn's basic problem. Both Haigler and John Engles, a regular 16 points contributor maintain a 50 points-plus shooting percentage. But the guards, Bob Bigelow and John Beecroft, both excellent shooters themselves, have been playing like separate entities...
...there is a weakness on the Penn squad, it is at the guard spot. Beecroft and Whitey Varga are suspect ballhandlers, a full-court press Sanders employed in Philadelphia bothered the methodical Quakers in the waning moments of the game...