Word: minutemen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Coach Frank McLaughlin's super-green quintet got a lesson in power basketball as they dropped a 79-65 decision to the host UMass Minutemen in the season opener here last night, but there were signs of new life in the Harvard basketball program that have not been seen in the last three years...
...Crimson--with five of the eight regular players making their varsity debuts--battled gamely throughout the contest against the oversized Minutemen, but the UMass five busted through the Harvard defense for 45 second-half points to put it away before a sellout crowd...
Massive (6-8, 230) Mark Haymore popped for 21 points and ripped down 21 points to anchor the Minutemen's tough inside game, which proved to be the difference in the game...
...Crimson took an 8-4 lead five minutes into the first half, but the Minutemen pulled ahead midway through the opening period with a series of long jumpers. Harvard's pressing defense and hustling--if ineffectual--offense kept play at a hectic level for the entire half, even though UMass maintained a three-to-seven-point lead for the rest of the period...
...fewer than seven freshmen are on the 12-man travel squad that will open Harvard's 68th hoop campaign tonight at Amherst against the UMass Minutemen. Gone are eight of 11 returning letterwinners--five of whom didn't even bother to try out--as McLaughlin has decided to go with his rookie recruits under the Ivy League's new freshman eligibility rule...