Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Classics, Harvard's alternative basketball team, might have won last Thursday's ball game against the Providence College Junior Varsity were it not for the team policy that everyone who dresses for a game gets to play. After the game Classics coach John Harvey said, "We could have beat them...
...When we play as many as 12 players with a variety of combinations, no particular combination gets loose or adjusted to one another," Harvey said. "Our best games have been games when we had, say, only eight players there...
...games like the game at Providence. The bench is raucous and vocal, shouting approval a fancy dribbling and particularly good passing. Halftime is spent not in the locker room, but rather entirely in taking shooting practice--at home games to pop music blaring over the IAB sound system. Harvey rarely gives pregame or postgame talks...
...Harvey said playing in the 11,000 seat Providence Civic Center did not put added pressure on the players, but rather "it made them too loose." Just the same, against Providence the Classics, Harvey said, "looked worse than in any game this season against a relatively good team--there was poor passing and not enough patience on offense...
Tuesday night the Classics rolled over Wentworth Institute, 82-66, in a game Harvey said was "easy to play" because only nine team members made the trip...