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...Denver squad is one of the kind of teams which the Faculty Committee protested against last year when it removed the Crimson from consideration for the NCAA tournament. Reports indicate that Denver, like last year, has only one American on its roster: all-American goalie Paul DeNapoli from Belmont...
...season in full swing, the team that most experts rate the best in the U.S. has yet to use a single American. For that matter, the University of Denver's Coach Murray Armstrong has only one American to put on the ice-second-string Goalie Paul DiNapoli of Belmont, Mass. With the exception of DiNapoli. every player on Denver's 20-man squad is a Canadian...
Everything about the tiny (500 students) Roman Catholic college of Belmont Abbey, nestling in the farmlands of southern North Carolina, suggests rural serenity. Everything, that is, save Basketball Coach Al McGuire, 32. Brash as Broadway, New York-born Al McGuire still has a subway tang to his speech as he blows his horn with the stridency of a barker at Coney. "I fill the people's gymnasiums, give 'em a good show and a good ball game," he says. "I may make silly statements, but I'm no jerk...
...basketball, least of all his enemies, can afford to call Belmont Abbey's McGuire a jerk. By all rights, his adopted school should be the smallest in smalltime basketball: its bandbox gymnasium has only 500 permanent seats; players must clean their own uniforms. But under Al McGuire, Belmont Abbey has developed almost overnight into one of the nation's best small-college teams. Last week, winning two games out of three in Virginia's Quantico Tournament, Belmont Abbey's boys boosted Al McGuire's won-and-lost record to a gaudy 67-14 since...
...West Roxbury; Richard K. Ellingboe, of Dunster and Wilmington, Del.; Douglas E. Buie, of Kirkland and Norfolk, Va.; Christopher Gale, of Eliot and Webster Groves, Mo.; Larry J. Hohit, of Leverett and Greenwood, Ind.; Thomas H. Moss, of Lowell and Cleveland, Ohio; Claude E. Welch of Quincy and Belmont; and Eliot T. Putnam, Jr., of Winthrop and Dedham...