Word: irion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Before Irion entered the eighth grade, his family moved to Hoffman Estates, III., where Steve turned into a 6-ft., 7-in. center of a high school team that went 23-4 in his senior year, losing three of those games by only a point. Back in Harlowtown, Irion had been the biggest kid his age, but in Illinois he played guard on his eighth grade team. Incidentally, Irion's father moved back to Billings after Steve graduated from high school because "he couldn't take the big city." The population of Hoffman Estates zoomed to 45,000 inhabitants after...
...Irion had decided to apply to Valparaiso, Wisconsin and St. Olaf's colleges before one of his high school teachers gave him an application form for Harvard...
...thought Harvard was little guys running around with their briefcases," Irion recalls. Soon after Irion filed his application, then-Harvard coach Satch Sanders came to Illinois on a business trip and watched Steve's high school five play. "Satch came into the locker room and spoke to us," Irion said, "It was really impressive...
...talk was convincing. Last year Irion was the bulwark of Sanders' squad. He led the Crimson in both scoring and rebounding. As he recalls, "I was tenth in the Ivies in scoring, seventh in rebounding, fifth in field goal average, and last in assists...
This year, Irion was expected to come away with even more impressive credentials. But in the last two minutes of play against Cornell, last season's final game, Irion wrenched his knee coming down with a rebound. The real damage was done, though, two months later while Irion was playing in a pickup game at Mather Huse. When he tried to pivot his leg turned but his knee remained locked in place. Irion underwent knee surgery over the summer...