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...With the tallest New Hampshire player checking in at just 6’8, Harvard should be able to impose its will inside. That frontcourt strength has just started to live up to the preseason hype: after three games, two guards—junior Jim Goffredo and freshman Drew Housman??ranked in the top three in scoring for the Crimson. But after Stehle and Cusworth’s 35-point combined effort against UC Davis on Sunday, that duo has taken over the second and third slots on the team’s scoring list, respectively. Entering...
...junior center Brian Cusworth and freshman guard Drew Housman, senior guard Mike Beal outpaced the full court defense again with an acrobatic reverse lay-up that put the Crimson up by 10. Harvard’s final four points of the game also came off the fast break, on Housman??s lay-up and captain Matt Stehle’s resounding dunk...
...Housman??s “To an Athlete Dying Young,” with its tragic but heroic, laurel-crowned youth, is the poem that springs to mind when one think of Paul, and anyone who knew him should read it. Another poem by Pablo Neruda also recalls him to me. The poem contrasts a bright bunch of yellow flowers with the endless sea, and describes how one’s eye is drawn away from the sea’s deepness and vastness to the explosive, earth-bound beauty of the flowers. After...
...hardest realities for athletes to accept is their sporting mortality. We all, at some point, fall from the center of attention. We move from the goal lines to the sidelines. The player becomes the coach, or at least the supportive (read: over-involved) parent. As A.E. Housman??s poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” describes: “Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay/And early though the laurel grows/It withers quicker than the rose...