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...order to develop toughness in his athletes. Knight uses a number of drills which at first sight would seem better suited for a football field. One of them, for example, consists of the team breaking up into two lines at opposite, sides of the court. On the coach's signal, the two players must dive to the floor in order to pick up a loose ball. Most football teams use the same drill in full equipment...
Harvard Coach Bob Harrison, who built a career in the NBA on his toughness, said Friday night that he tried to employ a similar drill at Harvard. He indicated that he was forced to discontinue it, because too many players complained that they were getting hurt. He went on to say that Harvard kids had "very low pain thresholds." On one occasion, he said, a ballplayer had began screening simply when he put his leg in a whirlpool both. The Harvard coach surmised that the reason Knight was able to use the drills he did was that he could...
...approach this week as he seeks to push the squad into serious training. Starting Monday there will be four mandatory practices a week rather than the come-when-you-feel-like-it policy that has prevailed up to this point. Also, Marion plans to eliminate individual lessons, and to drill squad as a whole to eliminate the inactivity that occurs when individuals go one-on-one with the coach...
This learning, which lasts all year round, includes both religion and black heritage, but the emphasis is on relentless drill in reading and math. "We're preparing them for predominantly white high schools," says Clements. "They won't be getting ghetto tests there." The school's stern discipline includes even paddling as a last resort. So while classes in neighborhood public schools are frequently disrupted by unruly children, the Holy Angels are serene. Explains Sixth-Grader Diamian Bellamy: "If you shoot spitballs in class or throw trays in the cafeteria like you do in public school...
...defiance of much modern educational theory, the combination of drill and discipline seems to work splendidly. In the two years since Clements came to Holy Angels, its students in grades four through eight have raised their scores on standard tests to about the national average, while those at a nearby public school still score two grade levels below national norms...