Word: indoors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Back also is most of the Crimson's multitalented midfield--with the notable exception of Michael Smith, who earned All-Ivy honors last season and is currently with the Denver franchise of the Major Indoor Soccer League...
Figuring that indoor meetings were dangerous, Mompesson moved Sunday worship into a nearby field. When pious townspeople gathered to pray for deliverance, they stood at some distance from each other. The rector and a Nonconformist minister were the only visitors to console the sick, grieving and terrified residents...
Sports at Harvard live in a strange middle kingdom. On one hand, there are some of the best athletes in the country here--people who could have gotten scholarships almost anywhere they wanted. And Harvard has the facilities--brand new pool, hockey rink, indoor track and (with luck) basketball arena--to keep these folks happy and limber...
Basketball has long been a wasteland at Harvard, but those days seem emphatically over. Crippled by the worst facility this side of Moskva--the ancient and decrepit Indoor Athletic Building--the hoopsters could not convince any serious ballplayers to spend four years here. But the team has a new arena under construction. Briggs Cage, a few good recruiting years under its belt, and a first-ever Ivy championship within reach. Look for coach Frank McLaughlin (the Bronx's Ambassador to Harvard) and his squad to give traditional powers Penn and Princeton a run for the laurels this year...