Word: hoop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were some good spots, of course. The basketball team beat league champ Penn, but don't bother looking up the hoop squad's record. It'll only make you cry. Or laugh--you see, it was a funny kind of year in sports...
Talent-wise, the squad is much improved from what was virtually a senior field trip last year. Elmblad says his "two stalwarts" are pitcher Caryn Curry, who is taking a spring siesta from her IAB hoop stardom in the winter, and freshman shortstop Betty Ippolito...
...their first duel match played on Flagler's home 18, the Donald Ross-designed Ponce de Leon course. Flagler is a small college golfing titan, so the Crimson's one-stroke victory proved as rare and refreshing as the barbecued steaks served up by Flagler's colorful coach Hoop Thebault at his St. Augustine condominium...
...satisfying thing about the Celts' play of the last few months is a visible change in attitude. Although the club has played only .500 ball since he took over in November, new Celtics coach and former Harvard hoop mentor Tom Sanders has wrought small miracles with the hustle and determination of that squad...
...that the mesmerizing honeymoon between Cambridge hoop fans and their gung-ho, energetic, "you've gotta believe" messiah is over, the major question becomes, can Francis X. McLaughlin succeed where others have failed and build a winning program...