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...League basketball season kicks off in earnest this weekend, as the Crimson cagers journey to Jadwin Gym and to the Palestra for back-to-back games against Princeton and Penn. The road trip against the League's perennial front-runners could prove a baptism by fire for Coach Satch Sanders' slumping quintet, which dropped three in a row over vacation...
...Tigers edged Villanova, a team that has beaten Notre Dame, and then went on to vanquish the Fighting Irish. Notre Dame was ranked number two before the upset, so expect Satch to recite the rosary Friday night during timeouts, even if he doesn't actually bring his beads...
Even coach John Thompson is huge. Thompson was a 6 ft. 10 in., all-American at Providence and played with Satch Sanders on the Celtics as Bill Russell's understudy during the mid 1960s. Already this season, Thompson has served as an assistant coach on the U.S. Olympic team and has taken the Hoyas on a twelve day barnstorming tour of Taiwan...
...Coach Satch Sanders noted that "We were in it all the way," and this proved especially true in the first half, as Harvard's deliberate attack found them on top 27-26 at intermission...
...that Satch Sanders has been unable to change the fortunes of Celtic basketball...