Word: iab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is really needed, apparently, is more floor space and more water. Intercollegiate basketball, wrestling and fencing will be moved across the river to new buildings at Soldiers Field, freeing the IAB for intramurals. Don Gambril, big-time, big-thinking swimming coach, requested an Olympic pool in the planned complex, but he has departed for Alabama, and the new pool has been moved on the charts to Observatory Hill, primarily for the use of Radcliffe residents and graduate students...
...IAB pool is considered an inferior collegiate facility because it has only six lanes, is too shallow for diving competition and is only 25 meters long (as compared to the Olympic 50 meters). Instead of building a new pool, the current one will probably be deepened...
...long last his masterplan to reach a productive and manifest fruition. Harry, who was to bring the Big B into vogue in Cambridge, and make the James Browns and Floyd Lewises into superhuman and unquestioned BMOCs. Harry, who hoped to transform the phone booth gymnasium perched atop the ancient. IAB complex like an ascetic's mountain retreat into a hotbed of vituperative energy and activity which would emanate from its fourth-floor generator like a pulsing and life-giving sign. Harry, whose massive and hoopla'ed cherry bomb got somewhere defused, who never knew why the big cracker fizzled...
...GAMBRIL is gone. Gambril who brought crewcuts and coaching genius to the IAB pool. Gambril, who pumped life into an antiquated and mediocre swimming program and transformed it into an aquatic tour de force, an invincibility, a flawlessly primed winning machine, who paced the pool deck at the IAB like an impatient and regal lion that knows that he want sand realizes that he has limited time to attain it, and brought a share of an Eastern title to Cambridge in two years, who recruited finagled, persuaded, and cajoled enough high school seniors across the country to come east...
...Boston's nine-time NBA champions. Harvard basketball just isn't the kind of thing that has very high priority at Harvard, much less the outside world. But the necessity for change at Harvard, opportunely coinciding with the retirement plans of a 13-year Celtics veteran, has changed the IAB line-up, and brought Thomas E. "Satch" Sanders to Cambridge to pump some life into Harvard basketball...