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Like now-retired New York Jet head man Weeb Ewbank, Harvard varsity lacrosse coach Bruce Munro is learning that not all illustrious coaching careers end in a blaze of glory. Munro, retiring at the end of this season after 26 years at Harvard, at best will field another scrappy unit that will have to fight to keep itself out of the Ivy League cellar...
...Munro, who also doubles as head soccer coach, has won 170 contests, lost 163 and tied seven. This season, then, will also be an attempt to retire with a .500 or better career coaching mark...
Remarks by coach Munro, published recently in The Crimson, regarding the reasons for his resignation as varsity soccer coach indicate that the values of professional sports, until recently confined at the college level to football or, if in other sports, to other parts of the country, have spread to Harvard soccer. As someone who, in his four years of playing soccer at Harvard in the 1960s, never was on a team that went to the NCAAs, I believe in winning. But I also believe, as do most Harvard soccer alumni I have spoken to, including the most talented, that...
Another ominous aspect of coach Munro's resignation as varsity coach and appointment as freshman coach is the implication that the services of the present freshman coach, Dana Getchell, will no longer be needed. Letters protesting any release of Coach Getchell have been flooding the Department of Athletics, and rightly so. The message they are carrying is that there are few teams at Harvard where the best values of intercollegiate athletics have been better or more consistently upheld over the last ten years than on the freshman soccer team. The number of students who stay with freshman soccer through...
...Munro will coach the lacrosse team this spring for the 25th season, having notched a 170-163-7 record over the years...