Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard kids have "very low pain thresholds," Harrison told Crimson reporter Doug Schoen in 1972, and went on to relate a story about one ballplayer who started screaming when he put his leg in a whirlpool bath. This wasn't like players...
...Harrison tried to employ a drill in practice that Indiana coach Bobby Knight, a notorious disciplinarian, has used on his Hoosiers. The team breaks up into two lines at opposite ends of the court, and on the coach's signal, the first man in each line has to dive to the floor to pick up a loose ball. The drill was quickly abandoned in the IAB when players complained of getting hurt...
Knight is able to get away with such drills, Harrison told Schoen, because he is able to go out and recruit the type of players he wants. Harvard coaches are shackled by Ivy League and school recruiting policies, and no one felt it more than Harrison...
...travel to distant locations," Harrison lamented a month before his firing. "I never saw James Brown (one of two high school All-Americans from Washington, D.C. to play for Harrison's mediocre 1970-71 team) play before he came here, though I had heard...
During his ten-year reign as head coach at Kenyon, Harrison had much more control of the program. After heading East, he never could adjust to Harvard's parochial way of doing things in the Athletic department, and was never quite capable of pulling off the elusive goal of bringing big-time basketball to the antiquated...