Word: hoopsters
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...about the time we shortsheeted Carole's bed?" recalls another hoopster, keeping the nostalgia rolling...
Freshman Crimson hoopster KEN PLUTNICKI never suspected he had relatives in the Boston area--at least, not until just before Harvard's game against Cornell last Saturday night. But the group of people he found outside the IAB that evening knew all about him, ever since Robert Plutnicki, a sophomore at Marlborough High and a don't-even-try-and-figure-out-the-relation relation, had discovered a little blurb in the Boston Globe which mentioned that Ken would be attending Harvard in the fall. That discovery had set the wheels in motion, and after a series of very confusing...
They face the prospect of their remaining season on the road, including tomorrow's game at U. Conn., a factor that can't be too helpful to the cagers' waning confidence. At this point an analysis of the season to date would only' be redundant, as the hoopster's erraticness, spotty shooting, and lethargic first half play have taken center stage in every Crimson game and ensuing game write-up this year...
...minute outing was especially pleasing to McLaughlin, who hadn't counted on the tallest hoopster to play any kind of role until next year...
Maybe the hoopsters just took on too tough a schedule this year and are playing over their heads? Large-margin losses to nationally-ranked Minnesota and Villanova are only to be expected, but most of the hoopster losses are to teams they've played and beaten before: St. Anselms, Bentley College, U. Mass., U.Penn., and Providence College (to whom they succumbed this season in a 40-point shellacking...