Word: carril
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tiger squad that coach Pete Carril brings to Cambridge tonight will bear little resemblance to the prototypical Carril units. Gone is the back-breaking, full-court, man-to-man defense in favor of a zone. McLaughlin thinks wistfully of what 62 per cent shooting could do to a zone...
Plenty. "Remember what the football team did against Yale," McLaughlin said, adding. "Well, this is our Yale weekend." But the real world intrudes. Harvard has defeated Penn exactly twice since 1967, and Carril, in 13 years in New Jersey, is 23-1 over the Crimson. Not an encouraging tradition...
Viewing instructions for tonight's game: Walk up the IAB stairs. Catch your breath. Into the door about 15 paces and take a seat opposite Mr. Carril, basketball coach of Princeton University and one of America's leading candidates for an apoplexy...
...Carril coaches in constant despair; he whines, grunts, implores and terrorizes his players into performing--usually quite well...
...Carril method--if having all the blood vessels in your head stand out is a method--has taken Princeton to the NCAAs three times and to a .688 overall winning percentage. Besides hysteria, program-eating and white-shirt-wearing, the Carril style usually means incredibly tight defense, patient offense (read: mostly short players) and winning. Carril is not pretty...