Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other groups aren't as established. The Lowell House Opera Society, Harvard's only entry now that its Leverett House rival seems to have vanished, is doing a double bill of Purcell's Indian Queen and Poulenc's Breasts of Tiresias, a funny, approachable and lyrical work with an Apollinaire-libretto involving a couple of sex changes and a lot of non sequiturs...
...result is a fast-breaking, hard-pressing attack that gradually and inevitably overwhelms. "Wooden's success," says one rival coach, "is based on upsetting the tempo and style of his opponent. He does it by running, running and running some more. He mixes that up by ball hawking, by grabbing, by slapping and by hand-waving defense. His clubs dote on harassing the man with the ball." Gail Goodrich, for one, well remembers the grind imposed by "Mr. Run." "There were nights when I'd come home from practice so tired I'd be lucky...
...player to criticize a teammate," explains Wooden. "In fact, when a man makes a basket, I make him compliment the one who passed the ball or started the play. That way, I tell them, you'll get a pass again." Unlike most coaches, Wooden rarely scouts a rival team. "If we play our game as well as we can," he says, "we can beat an opponent no matter what he does. We let them adjust to us, rather than we to them...
Minister. That he did, compiling a record of 552 wins and only 140 losses in a quarter-century of coaching at U.C.L.A. Over the years "Saint John," as some rival coaches refer to him, has mellowed a bit. He has done away with the mandatory coat-and-tie rule on road trips. Curfews are still enforced, but he does not sit in the hotel lobby as of old to check on stragglers. And he no longer insists on crew cuts. Even so, at the first signs of the shaggy look he will pointedly ask: "Isn't that barbers...
Though he has his assistants do most of the talent hunting, Wooden lends his considerable presence in personal meetings with prospective players, especially when the stakes are high. As Jabbar's mother said after meeting Wooden: "He's more like a minister than a coach." Adds one rival coach: "We thought we had one kid sewed up, but then Jesus Christ walked in. The kid's parents about fell over. How can you recruit against Jesus Christ...