Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After eliminating the also-rans, Fitzsimmons narrowed his choice of schools to five: North Carolina, Harvard, Duke, Villanova, and South Carolina. He had just settled on Harvard when the Duke recruiting machine zeroed...
Possibly the finest outside shot in Harvard basketball history didn't play for the varsity this year. In fact, he only suited up for intramurals. But Jim Fitzsimmons. who transferred from Duke and lost a year of eligibility. is convinced that next year he'll be ready to show his stuff...
...Duke didn't seem too interested in me at first, but when they heard I was seriously considering the school, they immediately sent down their main recruiter," Fitzsimmons said. "Still I wanted to go to Harvard. I was just returning from dinner with Coach Harrison when Bucky Waters. the Duke coach, met me at the train station...
Waters's tenacity began paying dividends immediately. Fitzsimmons led the Duke freshmen to eight straight wins-"I was shooting 60 per cent" -and was averaging more than 20 points a game. Then in the middle of the season, Fitzsimmons quit the team. dropped out of school, and transferred to Harvard...
...Brown been less sure of his own prowess, he might have seriously scarred the vulnerable young writer. But as a swinging Batman to Toback's cocky Elobin, J.B. proves to be a concerned and even therapeutic big brother. When Toback's wife, the granddaughter of an English duke, leaves him, Brown is helpful though not overly sympathetic. It didn't take much to see that Toback had been confused about which Marl-Dorough country he really wanted to come home...