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Harvard couldn't find a pitcher to contain theHuskies' devastating offense, which mounted a17-hit attack highlighted by Pete Charpentier'sfifth inning three-run dinger over the 375-ft.sign in right-center. Harvard managed 10 runs ofits own, however, receiving strong hitting fromsophomores Nick DelVecchio and Dan Scanlan.Freshman catcher Phil Andriolo added two hits to astrong performance behind the plate...
...applied for the coaching job at Lehigh and got it by default. One year later, as van Breda Kolff was completing a five- year-long coaching tour de force at Princeton, he recommended Carril to succeed him. The incumbent thought his protege would be a hard sell. "Pete is not in Princeton's image," says van Breda Kolff. "He is not gray flannels and herringbone suits...
...some conjecture. U.S. Senator Bill Bradley is willing to try to define it. "He sees the game conceptually. He sees the whole game and the whole court, and he sees it in the context of the entire season." The writer John McPhee puts it in a different context. "Pete has a matador's view of basketball. It is a ritual, an art, a series of set pieces, one following the other like a series of slides." Yet George Leftwich, a gifted offensive player at Villanova, currently a college coach, is occasionally puzzled. He has asked his son George...
Sociology professor and longtime Carril observer Marvin Bressler sees more than strategy. He sees a framework of philosophy behind it. "Pete is a consequential man with all these quirks. He is the only man who can talk like a 19th century moralist and not embarrass me." Carril can fan himself into instant fury over the hypocrisy of a player who invokes the name of God before a game, then insults the integrity of the officials by pretending to be the victim of a foul once on the court. "If I'm ever refereeing a game and that happens," he says...
PROFILE: Coach Pete Carril of Princeton...