Word: celtics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Sanders, this is his first try against Brandeis and his first face-to-face meeting with another Celtic alumnus...
Sanders, a former Celtic great who was known as a defensive specialist, offers candid glimpses at the thoughts and emotions of a professional basketball player to complement the illustrations of the Celtics churning up and down the court...
...Through the Hoop" offers the reader much more than Sander's philosophy on basketball as the former Celtic great's attitudes on life come alive in tpe stmry. He emphasizes the constant need for mental preparation and total effort in every aspect of human endeavor...