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Although Coach Jan van Breda Kolff and lastseason's Ivy League Rookie of the Year, forwardPax Whitehead, left for Vanderbilt, Cornell willreturn three starters from a squad that surgedlate to finish third in the league last year...
...seventh grade. "It was the game I could play," he says. And how. Pete was a dervish guard at Liberty High School, leading the team to consecutive 24-3 records. That earned him a place at nearby Lafayette College, where a raffish free spirit named Willem van Breda Kolff came to coach and inherited Pete, then in his senior year. "I had my preconceived notions," says van Breda Kolff of his sawed-off, would-be star. "He threw up some weird shots." But van Breda Kolff, a former player in the National Basketball Association, recognized talent. "Pete was very, very...
...small for the pros by maybe 4 in. in van Breda Kolff's opinion, Carril embarked on a career as a high school government teacher and basketball coach. He won early and often. In 1966 he applied for the coaching job at Lehigh and got it by default. One year later, as van Breda Kolff was completing a five- year-long coaching tour de force at Princeton, he recommended Carril to succeed him. The incumbent thought his protege would be a hard sell. "Pete is not in Princeton's image," says van Breda Kolff. "He is not gray flannels...
...crowded with relatively still figures and seem to come out of the old world of Titian and Veronese. But when it came to mobilizing figures in action in deep space, in the centerpiece of a battle between Christians and Moors, Zurbaran could only quote from Velasquez's Surrender of Breda without achieving anything like its seamless integration...
Saturday's shindig with Lafayette will be the first meeting in history between the two clubs, and will pit Crimson Coach Frank McLaughlin against legendary Lafayette mentor Butch van Breda Kolff...