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Last spring, when the curtain officially closed on the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB) as the home of Harvard basketball, there was a ceremony to commemorate the decrepit old place, and maybe even a few tears shed by some faithful alumni. Yet despite the considerable histrionics, everyone conceded that the IAB had outlived its usefulness...
...facility was planned, one that would offer an improved playing surface, spacious seating, and maybe even a scoreboard that worked. Best of all, there would be no more four-story climb to the court, as there always was at the IAB. Harvard officials reasoned that all this, combined with a steadily improving Harvard basketball program, could only boost attendance, which has proved marginal at best over the years...
...basketball teams face the prospect of returning to the IAB, a building to which they had officially bade farewell. And though men's coach Frank McLaughlin insists that going back to the IAB will not hurt his team's morale, there will no doubt be more than a touch of disappointment in the hearts of the players and their fans as they start their long trek up the cold, hard stairs of the IAB on opening...
...addition to increased gym time, (in the past, the squad has been lucky to use the IAB three times a week, even when settling for times like 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m.) a strategy change should aid the spikers' cause...
...rookies played regularly, Joe Carrabino, starting at forward, and Monroe Trout, coming in off the bench. Trout led the squad in rebounds, while Carrabino placed second to all-Ivy swingman Donald Fleming in the scoring department. Speaking of the old and new of Harvard basketball, the IAB--which is nearly as old as Crimson superfan Henry Zimmerman--bit the dust at the end of the season. The hoopsters will move into a spanking new home in renovated Briggs Cage next year...