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...STRAIN OF frustration cannot be obscured. You can see it in the face of hockey coach Joe Restic, in the manner of hockey coach Bill Cleary, even though the fast-talking optimism of basketball whiz Frank McLaughlin. Women's hoop coach Carole Kleinfelder has struggled with it, and more students than one could possibly name have to live with it--unhappily--every day of the year. No one, it seems, has the answer, of how to find sports success at Harvard. And so team records keep getting worse, the results more discouraging, the attitudes more depressed...
...nearly a decade, such a showdown has been the stuff of a hoop fan's dreams. Abdul-Jabbar, the N.B.A.'s five-time Most Valuable Player, the compleat center whose size (7 ft. 2 in.) does not diminish his grace. Julius Erving, the flashy, 6-ft. 6-in. forward from the now defunct A.B.A., whose rafter-clearing leaps and fluid moves earned him the sobriquet Dr. J (as in, watch him operate). Only after a merger of the warring leagues and four years of playoff eliminations did Abdul-Jabbar's Lakers dominate the West and Erving...
...Long March toward basketball supremacy (apologies to Louisville and the Soviet Olympic squad) draws to an end, with dunks sandwiched between slapshots and short hoppers, the teams play maddeningly efficient hoop, tempered only by the chaotic last two minutes...
This freshman learned his brand of hoop On courts deep in the city He may not be consistent yet, But his play sure is pretty...
Boutillier, Scannell and their backups also found a far more receptive target in Smith, who mastered the art of the under-the-hoop chippie. Combined with Holpuch, the three changed the Crimson rebounding style from polite to ferocious...