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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reality was unkind to Harvard last year. The cagers went 8-21, playing the roughest schedule a Harvard team has ever played...
...Harvard did not--and does not now--have "an awful lot of guys." Most of all, they are young, incredibly young. On the whole team, there is one senior and two--count 'em--two juniors. Five sophomores and five freshmen dominate the squad...
Allen says, "Our first weakness--it's no secret--is lack of size." Unfortunately, Allen understates. Harvard may not have seen a hoop team this small since they were playing with leather helmets out on Soldiers Field...
This year's annointed New Big Man is Lamar Flatt, 6-ft, 9-in., 220 lbs. out of Clemson, S.C., another town noted for its hoop proclivities. Allen calls Flatt "a really strong offensive man," on a team that will struggle for every fieldgoal...
Offensive firepower will have to come primarily from last year's freshman All-Ivy swing man Don Fleming, who averaged 11.9 points per game--tops for the team--and exploded for 30 points in the loss to Boston College and 29 in the dramatic one-point triumph over Yale. Harris, 10.4 points per game last year, also will have to score, though his primary responsibility as the team's "big man" will mean guarding players much taller than he, and clearing the boards...