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Harvard's other departing senior, guard Ken Wolfe, terminated his tenure in Crimson hoop on a less triumphant note. In a pre-game meal, Sanders's only Mr. Consistent dropped a filling in his soup. A quick trip to a Providence dentist sealed the gap, but the cavity in his play remained, as Wolfe could muster only six points...
Fitzsimmons did not rejoin the Crimson because he was eligible for only the last eight games, "and it would have taken me two weeks, or four of those games, to get in shape," he said yesterday. This week's Sports Illustrated article on Harvard hoop, however, states that he is hoping to raise his grades to get into graduate school...
...vegetarian tiger played as if he had dined on red meat all week; as if he had slept sweetly and spent all his waking hours on the practice court; as if his knees were made of steel cables; as if his only icons were the ball and the hoop...
Thus, the hopes for a Friday or Saturday night massacre (or squeaker, even), the faith that somehow, someway, Tom Sanders could continue Crimson chances, the unflagging optimism of fans, the press build-up, all of these do now seem quixotic, flying in the face of hoop history...
...Casting hoop squads is not casting dice, and perhaps grouping platoons of guards and forwards that complement each other and attack the enemy's sore spots would shift the emphasis from individual starting slots to final scoreboard tallies...