Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what have they got? Let's start at the beginning of Western civilization. First came Sumeria. Then Star Trek. On September 8, 1966, after four million years of cranial evolution, man (and Desilu Studios) produced a television series about "Space, The Final Frontier," an NBC show featuring a starship called the USS Enterprise that could on a good night travel quite a few times faster than the speed of light, and a crew of 430 human and other beings ("carbon-based units" as they came to be called) determined to "explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life...
During their two stretches of solid play, the cagers displayed accurate shooting inside and came up with several steals off of an effective man-to-man full court press. Neither team bothered with much defense, relying instead on the fairly regular flow of turnovers...
...accustomed to the luxury of a double-figure lead, Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin got overconfident and replaced his five regulars with the second team after nine minutes. Highly-touted freshman guard Calvin Dixon and classmate Lamar Flatt, who is Harvard's one legitimate big man at 6-ft., 9-in., led the resulting mayhem. The subs put the ball everywhere but in the basket...
...cagers stayed with a man-to-man defense for most of the game, while Springfiled's zone defense gave Harvard numerous opportunities to drive inside for the score...
...didn't try to pick up the man in the third period," Harder said, adding "we got puck happy...