Word: calbom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Calbom, who gave Harrison the two letters March 1, said at that time that Harrison "failed to encourage self-confidence in the players and made them uptight and unable to concentrate when they were in the game because he tried to captain the team from the bench...
However, yesterday he said that he was "willing to accept the responsibility for not having made them [Calbom and Lackner] happy, I'm going to try to change in the future, and I'm sure that their criticism will help us deal more effectively with individual players' attitudes...
...Both Calbom and Lackner intended their criticism to be constructive. Calbom's letter read in part. "If these player-coach relations can be ironed out. I see nothing but a bright future for Harvard basketball, but if not, I see nothing but further frustration and contempt in the future...
...both claim that their position has been distorted, and they've come out looking like "malcontents." "All the players on the team know about these gripes," Calbom said yesterday. "It's not secret, and I hoped that my letter would get it out in the open so that the whole team could benefit," he added...
...spoke with Harrison Wednesday about Calbom's letter, and said yesterday that "the coach has been going over the complaints in his head. He plans to take them into account, and has been re-evaluating some of the aspects of his program...