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This weekend should prove a whole new kettle of fish for Harvard's hoopsters, as they open their home season against invading quintets from City College of New York and Fordham. For fifteen years college basketball in New York City has consisted of minnows in the NCAA ocean, but this weekend the Crimson cagers may get more than they can swallow of a new dish: the resurgence of college hoop in the Big Town...
...large part of the resurgimento of Big Apple ball can be attributed to a new school of coaches: young, ruthless recruiters like rebuilding specialist Tom Penders at Columbia, Jack Powers at Manhattan, Jimmy Valvano at Iona, Billy Raftery, first year Fordham mentor Dick Stewart, and CCNY's Floyd Layne...
Each team in the New Jersey-New York Seven conference of Fordham, Manhattan, Rutgers, St. John's, Seton Hall, Columbia, and LIU seems stronger than the next. The picture wouldn't be complete unless one adds Hofstra, Iona, and St. Francis to the list...
Basketball at Fordham hasn't been the same since the glory days of Ken Charles, Charlie Yelverton, and coach Digger Phelps. Ever since "the Digger" departed for South Bend and the Fighting Irish, the Rams have shown about as much espegliere as a halibut on a slab...
...YORK: Charlie's Anguish. The couple inched painfully from Fordham Road into a wasteland of The Bronx. Clinging to each other for support, the old man and woman mounted a curb and struggled for a moment while she regained her balance. Then, slowly, they went on. Watching them shuffle into the shadows of late afternoon, Detective Donald Gaffney sighed heavily and said, "There goes prime meat...