Word: brannum
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There are some 32 former Boston Celtic players now coaching basketball, but they rarely get is chance to match wits across the collegiate hardcourt. Tonight will be one of those rare occasions, as Tom Sanders sends his Harvard squad against Bob Brannum's Brandeis five at 8 p.m. in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Brannum-Sanders encounter marks only the second time in collegiate history that two Celtic-taught mentors have faced each other. The only other known confrontation was between Brannum, while he was coaching at Norwich, and K.C. Jones, who was then guiding Brandeis...
...Brannum has impressive credentials for coaching. He was one of the youngest All-Americans at age 17, while under the tutelage of Adolph Rupp at Kentucky, as well as being an All-American at two different schools, earning the honor at Michigan State after World War II. The burly Brandies mentor played as a professional with the Celts in the early '50s before going on to spend 14 years as a coach at Norwich, Kenyon and now Brandeis...
...coach Brannum, this will be the second time in his five-year career at Brandeis that he has faced Harvard. The last time the Crimson came before the Judges was in 1972, in a historic Walthem confrontation that set several precedents in the Harvard record books...
...then. We've got a good bunch of shooters, and we started hitting against their zone," Brandeis head coach Bob Brannum said. "We knew we'd have to shoot with them since we couldn't play them straight...