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Jones, Headon and Bass Player Paul Simonon are all 23; Strummer is the band's senior citizen at 25. Two come from broken homes (Jones: "I stayed with me gran and a lot of wicked aunts") and have logged long hours doing manual labor and running the streets. Even Headon, whose father was a headmaster and whose mother was a teacher, says, "I used to steal a lot and run with a gang," and figures he would be in stir today if he had not beat out 205 other drummers at a Clash audition. Out of the pieces...
Hooft, who became only the seventh player in Harvard's history to score 1000 points, passed the millennial mark with a short one-handed jumper from inside the lane which rolled around and around the rim before dropping in. After a short standing ovation from the thousand fans on hand at the IAB, Hooft went on to score 22 more points to finish his career with 1021 points...
Without Mike Desaulniers, the top player in the country, the Crimson wasn't expected to fare that well in the grueling three-day, six-round event. However, the racquentmen fooled all the oddsmakers by placing a respectable fourth out of 25 schools, finishing behind the pre-tourney favorites Princeton, Penn and Western Ontario...
...division, senior captain John Havens ended his collegiate career in style, winning three tough matches before bowing to Western Ontario legend Phil Mohtadi. Before losing to Mohtadi, Havens knocked off Bowdoin's number one player in the first round, 3-0, and followed with consecutive 3-zip sweeps of Dartmouth's top player Peter Greulich and Princeton's number two man Garry "Foggy" Fogler...
...Crimson's other "A" division player, John Stubbs also played well, losing to Mark Alger of the University of Washington in the quarterfinals...