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Mark's speed tends to be hidden a little bit in his position," said former Harvard Coach Jape Shattuck, who directed the team during the duo's first three seasons. "Nick's speed gets exposed in his function...
Usually teams take a year, sometimes two, to adapt to a new coach. When Jape Shattuck left to pursue a career in sports law, Getman brought in a new system, new ideas, a new practice routine. Everything was new. Unfamiliar...
...some of that respect didn't come through then I was a colossal failure. But your best authority on that subject would have beren the majority of my players. Jape Shattuck...
Editor's Note: Jape Shattuck was the coach of the Harvard Men's Soccer team from...
...this in his 1973 novel The Princess Bride. His narrative had all the proper ingredients and all the right new moves: he deconstructed his text and undercut it with the cadences of a Borscht Belt raconteur. But on the page, Goldman's wordplay seemed too much of a jape. It needed the expanse of cinema -- where on the late show Errol Flynn and Gunga Din are still storybook young -- to revive the poetry of fable. Now, 14 years later, he and Rob Reiner have got it smashingly right...