Word: neils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance meeting with Northeastern assistant coach Jim Calhoun at a 1970 basketball clinic turned out to be O'Neil's big break. One year after that initial contact, O'Neil received a call from Calhoun, who had been named Huskie head coach when mentor Jim Bowman resigned in favor of a career...
Calhoun recognized O'Neil's potential in the college ranks, and offered him the assistant and head freshman coaching positions. Although it meant abandoning a teaching job he enjoyed, O'Neil accepted a post he was to hold for three seasons...
After the 1974-75 campaign at Northeastern, O'Neil decided to go back to teaching, and resigned from basketball and baseball coaching slots...
...same time that he was contemplating retirement, developments at Harvard were to alter his plans. Jarvis and O'Neil had been assistant coaches together at Northeastern for two seasons before Jarvis left to become freshman coach at Harvard...
When Jarvis was promoted to the assistant varsity coaching job (replacing Paul Lyons) just last spring, the freshman post was left vacant. Jarvis was asked about a prospective replacement, and remembered his association and admiration for O'Neil. The rest is history...