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...Dale Dover, '71, who led the Crimson cagers to a top-10 national ranking, his senior year, remembers that sports played a large part in school life. Despite student unrest," athletics held a more prominent position than they do now," he says...
...proctor in Weld North, Dover came to Harvard following an outstanding career at Evander Childs High School in New York, Virginia and UCLA heavily recruited Dover, and he chose Harvard "with ambivalence," he recalls...
...decision he made against devoting himself fully to basketball haunted Dover throughout his four undergraduate years, since he knew Harvard would not prepare him for a professional basketball career as well as some of the other schools that wanted...
Nevertheless, Dover caught the eye of more than one pro scout as he led the Crimson through a sparkling 1971 season which included a second-place Ivy League finish. The Celtics and the Harlem Globetrotters both expressed interest in his jump shot, and he spent one month in training camp with Boston...
After finding the going a but tough in American pro ball, Dover moved on to the position of player-coach with a Portuguese team and guided that squad from obscurity to a Portuguese national championship. The league included Angola and Mozambique, and Dover got to tour Czechoslovakia to play in World Cup matches...