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...another men’s college basketball season that didn’t include Harvard in its postseason tournaments. For those of you keeping score at home, it’s now been 63 years since the Crimson played in the Big Dance, when coach Floyd Stahl led Harvard into the eight-team tournament in 1946, only to lose to Ohio State...
...Like last year, coach Tommy Amaker has signed a star-studded lineup of high schoolers as he looks to remake the Crimson program. Local product Kyle Casey got interest from high-level schools, including Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Providence, and has impressive hops (if you haven’t seen it, Google “Kyle Casey dunk” and click the first link to watch him win a dunk contest). Point guard Brandyn Curry, rated the #40 point guard in America by Scouts Inc., could be the ballhandler of the future for Harvard, while three other highly-touted recruits?...
...Last year, the New York Times reported that Harvard was lowering academic standards to unacceptable levels for student athletes and potentially violating NCAA rules in its recruiting, accusing Amaker of improper contact with one recruit in a grocery store and an assistant coach of recruiting a player prior to being officially hired by the school. These claims, minor violations if they had been true, were rejected by the Ivy League after an investigation...
...becomes clear. Snow—who was the captain of his high school hockey, lacrosse, and soccer teams—is that all-around athlete who possesses the added dimension of poise that distinguishes the truly talented from the merely overeager. Crocker Snow Jr. ’61, coach of the Harvard men’s polo team, sums it up by calling his son a “quiet player...
...with the score tied at five and a man on base in the bottom of the ninth and hammering the ball over the centerfield fence to complete the sweep with a 7-5 Harvard win.“Oh, was it exciting,” said an ecstatic Crimson coach Joe Walsh. “It’s nice to see two comebacks. We were down a bundle of runs in both games...but] we honed in there and hit them late.”HARVARD 7, CORNELL 5After the Crimson came all the way back from...