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Harvard basketball coach Tom Sanders doesn't have this job. This is college hoop, The Ivy League, and the pro draft--not Pencey Prep, the YMCA and The Most Improved Camper Award. But for some strange reason I didn't feel like I was watching a competitive college basketball team out there last night in Harvard's 82-61 loss to Penn. Just a group of "outstanding young men" going through the motions and trying to finish a ho-hum, well-what-can-I-say type of season...
...driven into a dismal affair by Simon's emotional sterility. As they attack Simon from many directions, their function is to reveal the seamless perfection of his ability to withstand all efforts to draw him into the mainstream of life. In the end, they conspire with the superb Tom Courtenay to reveal Simon not only as a hypnotically fascinating theatrical figure but also, perhaps, as a cautionary archetype...
...biggest transition in New York roundball, however, is taking place at 119th Street and Broadway. Columbia's head basketball coach Tom Penders, the dean of the new breed of young, dynamic coaches, is building a team around a sophomore backcourt of Ricky Free and Alton Byrd that should make New York fans forget the heyday of Jim McMillian and Heyward Dotson, the Kramer-Hairston era at NYU, and the glory days of Fordham under brilliant coach Digger Phelps...
...next bout, Tom Bixby put together one of his best performances of the season to trip a strong foe, 6-2. After Jim Corcoran (158 lbs.) grappled to a 1-1 tie and Cornell's Bill Wagner manhandled Ed Bordley (167 lbs.), 10-2, Harvard trailed by seven points with only three bouts remaining...
There were to be other surprises, however. A shoulder injury forced Mulvihill to forfeit his bout. Tom Bixby then lost 1-0 when he refused to settle and failed to notch a takedown after allowing his opponent a third-period escape...