Word: kolff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dutch physician Willem Kolff invents the dialysis machine, used to cleanse the blood when a patient's kidneys malfunction...
...second story centers on Cornell's resurgence. The Big Red (7-13, 2-6) has had a difficult time adjusting to the departure of Coach Jan van Breda Kolff and last year's Rookie of the year, Pax Whitehead, both of whom went to Vanderbilt, but it may have reached a turning point last weekend with its sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth...
Although Coach Jan van Breda Kolff and lastseason's Ivy League Rookie of the Year, forwardPax Whitehead, left for Vanderbilt, Cornell willreturn three starters from a squad that surgedlate to finish third in the league last year...
...seventh grade. "It was the game I could play," he says. And how. Pete was a dervish guard at Liberty High School, leading the team to consecutive 24-3 records. That earned him a place at nearby Lafayette College, where a raffish free spirit named Willem van Breda Kolff came to coach and inherited Pete, then in his senior year. "I had my preconceived notions," says van Breda Kolff of his sawed-off, would-be star. "He threw up some weird shots." But van Breda Kolff, a former player in the National Basketball Association, recognized talent. "Pete was very, very...
...small for the pros by maybe 4 in. in van Breda Kolff's opinion, Carril embarked on a career as a high school government teacher and basketball coach. He won early and often. In 1966 he applied for the coaching job at Lehigh and got it by default. One year later, as van Breda Kolff was completing a five- year-long coaching tour de force at Princeton, he recommended Carril to succeed him. The incumbent thought his protege would be a hard sell. "Pete is not in Princeton's image," says van Breda Kolff. "He is not gray flannels...