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...pre-season ratings, Brown was picked as high as fifth in the Ivy League. The Bruins were supposed to have had their best team in years. The Crimson was picked to finish anywhere from first to fourth. Neither team has lived up to expectations...
Barnaby's pre-season training emphasizes learning why to hit a shot rather than just how. "I teach the boys to play percentage shots and carry a point until they are in a position to hit a winning percentage shot," Barnaby said. Harvard uses an open-faced racket and aims comfortably above the tin to avoid mistakes. "We'll learn how to hit the ball not the tin," Barnaby added...
Initiates to Harvard basketball may be surprised at the Crimson's rank in some pre-season top 20 polls, but it is a good omen for the hard-core followers who knew it would happen sooner or later. "The squad, which boasts four former high school All-Americans (double last year's number), has its work cut out for it though, if it expects to live up to its 11th-place rating in Basketball Magazine...
...four teams picked most often by pre-season prognosticators to finish in Ivy football's first division all opened their league schedules Saturday with victories. While Harvard and Yale were grabbing hard-fought wins. Dartmouth and Cornell kept rolling along...
Quirk's victory was a dramatic advance in his surprisingly rapid recovery from a pre-season injury. He chopped off 47 seconds from his time on the same course on Tuesday. In that meet he finished third...