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...labored in the obscurity of the minor leagues for 13 years. Now, 20 seasons, six pennants and four World Series championships later, the wonder is not only his longevity but the fact that, at 61, the wily old mentor of the Los Angeles Dodgers is once again piloting the winningest team in baseball...
...outstanding coaches, the most notable being Bill Russell, Bill Sharman, Tom Heinsohn and Bob Cousy, all of whom are now coaching in the NBA. Sanders comes highly recommended, according to Watson, by "a number of prominent people" in the Boston area, including Celtics General Manager Arnold "Red" Auerbach, the winningest coach in NBA history. According to Watson, Auerbach told Harvard that Sanders's knowledge of the game of basketball "is as great if not greater than any former Celtic who has gone into coaching...
...quite draw any phone calls from the White House as Harvard won 5-4, but it was a record breaking victory for the Crimson, their 31st in a single season. The previous record was set by last year's squad. Harvard's baseball squad is not the only the winningest in the history of the sport here but it is also the Eastern Collegiate Baseball League champion and the winner of the Greater Boston League, going away...
Blakinger, captain-elect of the 1973-74 squad, went undefeated in the lvies and joined Starr as one of Harvard's winningest wrestlers this season with a 15-1 record...
Elsewhere in the Ivies, however, Penn returns with the harvest from the winningest '72 freshman team in the country, beaten only by Princeton, whose varsity this season also poses a championship threat. The Crimson faces both the Quakers and Tigers, in addition to traditionally strong squads from Cornell and Brown, during a three-week stretch beginning April...