Word: harrison
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When Tom Sanders replaced Bob Harrison as Harvard's roundball coach three years ago, it was like replacing night with day. Harrison was a believer in the "win-at-all-costs" philosophy, one which won him too few victories for the talent with which he had to work and a resignation slip after the 1972-'73 campaign...
Sanders' entrance produced a drastic alteration of attitudes, yet one thing remains the same. While the constant pressure Harrison exerted on his players in hopes of creating victories no longer fills the sweaty air of the IAB, there is now no pressure whatsoever on the players. As junior guard Jonas Honick stated, "Sanders lets us get away with murder. He gave, and we took...
What the players didn't take, however, was the number of victories which a team of Harvard's caliber should have produced, and herein lies the cager connection, the one link between the Harrison and Sanders regimes...
...last man to take a shot at Crimson roundball before Tom Sanders came to the IAB was Robert W. Harrison. Harrison strung together three just-barely winning seasons during his five-year stay in Cambridge, but was fired in the spring of 1973 in a move that Athletic Director Robert Watson described as "in the best long-range interests of the program...
...Harrison simply did not fit in at Harvard. He built a nine-year NBA career on toughness and a winning program while coach at Kenyon College on discipline and grueling workouts, but he could not transplant this attitude to Cambridge...