Word: mcclung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the start, it was Harvard's ball game. Scully and Sedlacek--ball-hawking and running like madmen--drove in for layups. McClung hit a jump shot, then quickly followed with two tip-ins underneath. The Crimson led 10-3, and Princeton looked sick...
...McClung was an excellent college basketball player, however, and on the night of February 7, 1964, he was a better basketball player than Bill Bradley...
...Besides McClung--who would set a new single-season scoring mark in 1964--Harvard had a good basketball team that season. Coach Floyd Wilson had a hot-shot sophomore gunner named Keith Sedlacek, two good big men in Barry Williams and captain Bob Inman. Leo Scully, a 6-1 junior playmaker kept the machine running smoothly...
Sedlacek finished as the high scorer with 31 points--connecting on 13 of 16 shots from the field. McClung had 30 to match Bradley's total. The Crimson shot 62 per cent from the floor...
...only real excitement of the season was long past. That had come five weeks earlier, in a crowded, noisy IAB, when 1600 people watched McClung and Sedlacek destroy a legend, and pull off the biggest upset in Harvard's 67-year basketball history...