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...Burke, a Williams College transfer and two-time New England intercollegiate golf champion, is the big gun for the Crimson golfers. Burke, Quin Smith and Ed Berry, the team captain, form the nucleus of Coach Bob Harrison's varsity which John Lee '53, JV golf coach, calls mabye the best golf team ever to play for Harvard...
...blended together. The Harvard cagers' man-to-man defense has been pitifully weak for most of the last three seasons, causing the Crimson to lose a number of games they should have won. The danger with the run-and-gun philosophy employed by former head coach Bob Harrison is that on any given night a team's shooting could go cold, and its fast break become erratic...
Anyone who takes the position that no coaching approach can build a winner in the "Cambridge atmosphere" is either a fool or an apologist for Harrison. Despite some key losses, coach Bill Cleary put together an extraordinary hockey team in the Harvard atmosphere as have crew coaches Harry Parker and Steve Gladstone. If the new coach can build some semblance of a winner, fans will flock to the IAB and the program will flourish...
...looking for a coach, the Department of Athletics must make sure that they do not choose a candidate who is awed by Harvard. Bob Harrison could never really adjust to Cambridge and really didn't see the Harvard student as a normal human being. Harvard students are no different than anyone else, and if a coach has a different attitude, it will only mean problems for the program...
Lastly, Harvard needs a coach who is independent from all pressures, be they from the Department of Athletics, alumni or fans. The coach Harvard hires should have a definite basketball philosophy that needs no reinforcement, correction or elaboration from well-meaning observers. Coach Harrison was particularly susceptible to advice from alumni and felt that certain members of the Department of Athletics were his protectors...