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They are members of the Harvard Inceptors, a collection of about twenty graduate students who have combined to produce the University's most successful basketball team. During the past season the Inceptors won three tournaments against semi-professional and amateur competition...
...title represents a personal triumph for the East's best recruiter, Ned Harkness, who coached the last national champion from the East, R.P.I. in 1954. It was not a particularly proud day for the Ivy League, though, unless you consider 23-year-old Canadian semi-pros who are lured to America solely for their hockey ability as representatives of the Ivy League. Cornell's style of play, epitomized in the final by all-star defenseman Harry Orr's major penalty for spearing and all-star forward Doug Ferguson's ejection from the game for fighting, is just as alien...
Princeton carried Ivy hopes into the NCAA basketball tourney, but lost in the Eastern semi-finals to North Carolina. Both teams played far below par in a game that decided, in effect, who will face unbeatable UCLA in the NCAA final at Louisville next weekend. Gary Walters and Chris Thomforde, the two key Tiger performers, fouled out, and John Haarlow was sidelined by a sprained ankle. That meant that substitutes who had seen action only against Ivy tailenders were left to battle the Tar Heels in a tense overtime. The other main factor in the 78-70 U.N.C...
Foul shooting was the only excuse for B.C.'s finding itself in the Eastern final against U.N.C. The over-rated Eagles ran into an effective freeze by Connecticut and were lucky to get past the first round. In the semi-finals they were outclassed by St. John's but squeaked by, hitting 23 of 25 second half freebies. (The Redmen from Brooklyn were so stunned by their defeat that they collapsed in the consolation game with Princeton, losing 78-58.) North Carolina had little trouble eliminating the Eagles Saturday night in a rather routine shoot...
Tonight's winners will play Saturday for the Eastern Regional championship. The Eastern winner will travel to Louisville, Ky., where the four regional champions will meet in the national semi-finals on March...