Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coach Norman Shepard lifts the lid on his first Harvard basketball team, and opens the local season as well, at 8:45 p.m. tonight when an equally untested Tufts five trots onto the Blockhouse floor...
...Shepard is concerned, tonight's is the most important game on his schedule. This is what he told his squad yesterday as it completed eight weeks of practice under Shepard's fast-break style. At the close of yesterday's workout, the coach said, "My team will be fine as far as condition and morale go, and it will play to the best of its abilities...
...about Tufts? All Shepard knows about the visitors from Medford is what Walt McCurdy has told him. McCurdy, a member of last year's team, played with a Business School outfit that lost to the Jumbos in an unofficial scrimmage. Coach Fred Ellis likes to play a wild and fast game. His team is about the same as Shepard's heightwise (the Smith-Rockwell-Prior front line averages 6 ft. 5 in.) and his best man is Perry, a dead set shot who is also very fast...
...curtain-raiser, the freshmen take on the Tufts yearlings. The Yardlings will also be making their debut under a new coach, Floyd Wilson. Probable varsity lineups: HARVARD TUFTS Smith F Kolankiewicz Rockwell F Perry Prior C Goodwin Crosby G Mullaney Hickey G Sokelin
Ulen has three men working out to fill the gap, Rose Vielman, Dick Wheeler, and Mike Siner. Bob Brown may be able to help next term, but the coach doesn't anticipate enough improvement by any of these men to make the Crimson a strong contender in the breaststroke and the medley relay...