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...time defending champion Penn is once again the team to beat in the Ancient Eight, one year removed from romping to a league title at 12-2 and giving three-seed Texas a run for its money in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. Reigning Player of the Year Ibrahim Jaaber returns for his senior year, as does All-Ivy forward Mark Zoller. Long-time head coach Fred Dunphy is not back, however, after leaving Penn, but not Philadelphia, in the spring, to replace Hall-of-Famer John Chaney at fellow Big 5 institution Temple. So Glen Miller, formerly...
...steam out of us. I think from a coaching-staff standpoint we didn’t know it knocked that much steam out of our guys at that point in time.”Just one day after the painful loss to Princeton, Harvard lost to eventual league-champion Penn by double digits.“Having to play Penn the night after we lost to Princeton was just a really rough stretch,” captain Jim Goffredo says. “I think we started to panic and get away from the things that had gotten...
...freshmen] will really know what to expect going into next season.” This shortage of upperclassmen thrust the new freshman class into starting and leadership positions. Mann started all 17 games for Walsh’s young team, and six freshmen started against Ivy League champion Columbia in Harvard’s final game of the season. “Everyone was forced into leadership roles earlier than I think we would have wanted,” Mann said. “But everyone did well with it. We had to get comfortable, and then we could start...
...DIED. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 82, French journalist and politician; in Fécamp, Normandy. In 1953 Servan-Schreiber co-founded L'Express, building it into the nation's most influential newsweekly. A devout reformist, Servan-Schreiber used L'Express to champion French decolonization and to back politicians who promised change. In 1970 Servan-Schreiber struck out into politics on his own-winning legislative and regional seats-and in 1974 briefly served as Reform Minister under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
Fifteen of the 16 media members from the eight Ivy areas who voted in the poll picked the Penn Quakers to come in first. Penn, the defending league champion which has won four of the past five Ivy crowns, returns two first-team All-Ivy performers in senior guard Ibrahim Jaaber, the reigning player of the year, and senior forward Mark Zoller...