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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team captain who finally, truly blossomed in his senior year. His 23 assists led the team as well as his 34 points, an amazing count because he played all season with assorted injuries, including a shoulder that separated enough times to lose count. But the Beanpot trophy on his lap on February 9 made it all worthwhile...
...over the bus. McLaughlin sat close to the front, thinking and speaking softly to assistant coach Terry O'Connor. Soon both were asleep. Further back, point guard Calvin Dixon, studied quietly, making casual conversation with Robert Taylor, who sat across the aisle. Donald Fleming had two books in his lap, an economics text and a well-worn copy of the Holy Bible...
Tourists stream in and out of the Square all summer clambering off buses for an obligatory look an John Harvard's statue (and an obligatory snapshot of girlfriend in lap of same). They find a climate that can only be described as oppressive (though geographically the city is in the temperate zone the weather here is tropical for most of the summer). Last year, when record temperatures' plagued the area for weeks, many of the tourists took their pictures through the tinted windows of their air-conditioned Greyhounds. The only relief is water; hence the city hospital daily treats patients...
Unfortunately for Harvard, the breaks went against Dixon in Detroit. Hampered by painful blisters on his left foot and a board 11-lap track with tight turns. Dixon clocked 4:03.97--two seconds off the winning time...
...meter finals, just into the last lap, senior co-captain Mare Chapus was tripped up by Penn's Jeff Hill. Almost as soon as he hit the track, Chapus was on his feet again, but his momentum and his excellent position--"in front of the little guy from Penn," as Chapus put it--were gone...