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Throughout each of these irksome losses, there has been one constant: a lack of creativity on the part of the coaching staff. OK, not a total lack of creativity. The Harvard coaching braintrust did try a reverse against Columbia and an option pitch in the end zone against Dartmouth...
...Soviets have decided to wipe out the Harvard-MIT braintrust by dropping a 25-megaton nuclear warhead in Cambridge, but the CIA finds out in time to warn President Reagan, who notifies Governor King, who calls Chester E. Hallice...
Actually, Restic's lone concern about the ominous presence of the ABC crew revolved around the politics of coaching. The largest question mark in the minds of the Harvard braintrust was "Who do we send out for the introductions?" Not about to tee-off either his defensive or offensive units (an intense intra-squad rivalry in itself), Restic affected a classic 'great compromise' by sending out the starters on the 1975 Ivy League championship squad...
...varsity basketball coach Mike Jarvis aptly describe in a nutshell Harvard's rookie head freshman coach John J. "Buddy" O'Neil. In fact, judging from the vibes one receives from talking with the players, Harvard picked up more than a winner when it added O'Neil to the basketball braintrust...
After receiving his Ph. D. in psychology from Harvard, Skinner spent five years doing postdoctoral research in a "subterranean laboratory" at the same time Frankling Roosevelt and his braintrust were advocating the New Deal. In 1936, Skinner married Yvonne Blue, an English major at the University of Chicago, who now says. "Fred told me he was a genius when we were first seeing each other. But I told him that he couldn't be a genius if he wanted to marry...