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McLaughlin only coached at Fordham one season before departing with Phelps to Notre Dame, where he coached six years before coming to Cambridge. The Fighting Irish went 6-20 McLaughlin's first year in South Bend, but the next year they beat Marquette in the NIT finals. During 1973-74 the Irish snapped UCLA's 81-game winning streak...
BRONX, N.Y.--Harvard basketball coach Frank McLaughlin grew up near Woodlawn Cemetery here in the Bronx, and after the first half of Saturday night's game with Fordham it looked as though his cagers would leave the Rams with the epitaph "Fordham Basketball--R.I.P." Instead it was the Crimson that rolled over and played dead, giving up a 39-29 halftime lead to lose the game...
After riddling the Fordham zone defense in the first half, the Crimson got off only nine shots from the floor in the second stanza. The cagers hit seven of 14 foul shots, and out-rebounded 29-12. In fact, the hoopsters had a chance to sink a pair of fou! snots on 18 occasions during the game, and converted both only four times...
Harvard jumped out to a 6-0 lead the first two minutes of the game, with Fordham showing as much espegliere as a halibut on a slab...
Instead, the cagers were in for a rude awakening when play resumed. After Fine netted a layup to give Harvard a 53-40 edge, the Rams proceeded to outscore the Crimson, 9-2. John Aiken's layup with 10:26 left to play pulled Fordham to within 55-49. Freshman Tyrone Holloway, the Rams' leading scorer on the night with 18 points, then scored with 6:37 in the game to cut the Harvard...