Word: northeastern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard coach Bob Harrison, whose team had just won its third straight gannet by topping unbeaten Northeastern, went to the weekly metropolitan basketball coaches luncheon in good spirits Wednesday. When the coaches kidded him about having wrapped up the Boston area basketball title. he shyly admitted, "Well I guess we have...
Offensively. the Crimson will have to deal with Rutgers' multiple-style defense. If its play against Northeastern's switching defenses is any indication. Harvard-and particularly guards Matt Bozek and Dale Dover-should not be confused...
Almost from the first, the irritating deficiencies in the Crimson's style, which had hampered it in both the Northeastern and Brown contests, got Harvard into serious trouble. Twice in the first minute of play Eagle forwards poured into the Harvard end, let in by careless backchecking. And twice the Crimson's frustrating inability to clear the puck gave Boston College open shots on goaltender Bruce Durno that were just inches away from goals...
...Yardlings exploded to a 20-point lead early in the second half, over-powering the Huskies on the boards. But Northeastern came back and cut the margin to 81-70 with a full-court press that forced numerous Crimson ball-handling mistakes...
...team, and it looked doubtful that their high-scoring line of Paul Schilling, Tim Sheehy, and John Snyder could produce enough goals to compensate for the loss. A 6-5 overtime victory over weak Providence did little to dispel those doubts, and subsequent triumphs over Princeton and Northeastern, both destined for horrible seasons, were scant help in providing an accurate measure of the Eagles' talent...