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wasn’t—but the smile on his face showed with minor injuries. They weren’t needed. he had been thinking about it. The safety- The Crimson pushed the Hoyas up and Your Choice: conscious Murphy was unmoved. “It’s a down the field, racking up 33 first downs Harvard, good rule,” he said. to Georgetown’s nine and winning the total- It was Murphy’s 221st game on the Har- offense battle 535 yards to 266. Nevertheless, Graduate Schools, vard sideline, moving him past Joe Res- the final score was restrained: Harvard 31, or House Hats tic (1971-93) for most games by a Crimson Georgetown 17. This was partly due to two Purchase Reg. $22 / Member Price $1980 head coach. Murphy marked the occasion big-play Hoya touchdowns (a 76-yard pass with some trademark trickeration. Af- and a 74-yard run), and also to Viviano’s ter Harvard had spotted Brown an early playing only 17 minutes. In that span, how- Choose “Harvard” Embroidered Hat in , the Crimson came back with 25 ever, he completed 15 of 21 pass attempts for maroon, navy, granite, khaki or black. second-period points. After the second of 210 yards and three touchdowns, including three touchdowns—a seven-yard Viviano a 75-yarder to Firkser. bolt up the middle—Harvard lined up for So far, so good. But the meat of the sched- an extra- kick. But when the ball was ule—and, perhaps, health—would deter- snapped to the holder, backup quarterback mine whether the media had gotten it right. Cam Tripp ’19, he did not put it down for placekicker Jake McIntyre ’20 to boot but IN MEMORIAM: Chester M. Pierce ’48, M.D. instead picked it up, rolled to his right, and ’52, died in September after a long illness. He cantered into the end zone for two points, was the first African American to play in a with nary a Bruin within 20 yards. major college football game south of the Ma- There were other strong elements. The son-Dixon line when he suited up at tackle defensive line stuffed the Brown running in 1947 at the University of Virginia over the attack, limiting the Bruins to 74 yards. Run- initial objections of its administrators. (The Choose your Graduate School in Maroon ning behind the emerging offensive line, the game passed without incident.) Pierce went workhorse Smith gained 89 yards on 22 car- on to become a distinguished psychiatrist ries and rumbled for two touchdowns. Line- and educator; the Division of Global Psy- backer Tanner Lee ’18 and defensive back chiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital Wes Ogsbury ’19 made interceptions to is named in hisHeritage honor. “Harvard”Academic (For more, & seeRecognition “New Lamp blunt Bruin drives. And while you can cre- Faces,” January-February 2011, page 64.) ate kickoff rules that might contain Shel- ton-Mosley, you can’t stop him, as proven Tidbits: With the victory over George- Tote Bag 24 ounce cotton 16.5”h x 14”w x 9.5”d. by two plays from scrimmage: a splendife- town, the Crimson is now 14-0 in night Purchase Reg. $65/Member Price $5850 rous, stretching, 34-yard grab of a Viviano games at thePillow Stadium….Under Measures 18”w x 17”h. Murphy, bomb and a slick 33-yard reverse, each trig- Harvard is 18-5Purchase in its Reg. Ivy $45 League/Member openers…. Price $4050 gering a score. In geographical representation on the 2016 Choose your House Shield Hat in Maroon The next week, at the Stadium against roster, California leads with 17 players, fol-

Georgetown, Harvard played without Shel- lowed by (16), (9), Connecti- ton-Mosley and Rich, who were held out cut (8), and Ohio (6). vdick friedman

she is the lone coach (male or female) to “Acting As If ” for lead a 16-seed over a one-seed in the NCAA tournament (the Crimson’s 1998 victory over 35 Seasons Stanford, 71-67, on the Cardinal home floor). coach Kathy Delaney-Smith Many coaches who have enjoyed such en- lives, and inspires with, her motto. during success are associated with a specific style of play. —the former Princ- eton men’s basketball coach who is second Harvard women’s basketball coach to Delaney-Smith among Ivy coaches on Kathy Delaney-Smith insists that her ac- the all-time win list, at 514—created the complishments are not “extraordinary.” But Princeton Offense, a methodical system that as she enters her thirty-fifth season, she is slowed the game and allowed the Tigers to the second-longest tenured head coach in compete with more athletic opponents. Division One women’s . Delaney-Smith, in contrast, is most close- She has the most overall wins of any coach ly associated with three words that at first For ordering and shipping information in men’s and women’s basketball glance have nothing to do with any sport: call: 1-800-368-1882, fax: 1-800-242-1882, or history (546-375 overall, 322-142 Ivy). And “Act as if.” The subject of an eponymous shop our online catalog: www.thecoop.com www.gocrimson.com 31 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 's Journal documentary by former player Melis- sa Johnson ’00, “act as if” involves con- vincing oneself that challenges are sur- mountable and goals are attainable. As Delaney-Smith explained in the film, she encourages players to act as if they are not tired and to act as if they are great shooters. “The body,” Johnson wrote in a New York Times essay accom- panying the film, “follows where the mind leads.” “Act as if” embodies Delaney-Smith’s belief that performance is at least 80 percent mental. She has long drawn on motivational techniques from academic disciplines like psychology and leader- ship. As Maura Healey ’92 and Trisha Brown ’87 recalled, their coach em- ployed visualization, mindfulness, and sports psychology in the 1980s, decades before they were in vogue. She and her players are currently studying associate professor Amy ing strong relationships, a critical skill for Kathy Delaney-Smith, the winningest Cuddy’s work on body language and pres- recruiting and molding top athletes. She coach in Ivy League basketball ence. And for new approaches, the coach connects with people through her ap- candid, even during the recruiting process can always turn to her bookshelf, which proachability (her players call her “Kathy,” when many coaches bombard prospects is lined with still more Crimson academic not “Coach”) and sense of humor. She also with praise and attention using social me- volumes, among others, like Ron Heifetz’s demonstrates concern for her players’ ho- dia and text messages. As former player and Leadership on the Line and Rosabeth Moss listic development—an attribute that, as assistant coach Lindsay Hallion ’08 noted, Kanter’s Confidence. Healey said, is critical for young women at Delaney-Smith makes more limited use of Delaney-Smith complements these moti- a pivotal stage in their lives. these techniques; she prefers instead to vational techniques with a knack for forg- Nonetheless, Delaney-Smith is unusually speak to players directly and openly. One

expensive and long-term project, with no certain date New-Look Lavietes for completion. Now, the decision has been made to overhaul Laviet- Basketball Fans will navigate through construction-work-in- es, which was built in the 1920s as an indoor-track center progress, temporarily in abeyance during the Crimson’s season, and converted to basketball use in 1982. The visible construction as they enter Lavietes Pavilion for this season’s games. Although extends the front façade, ultimately yielding 5,000 square feet of the University’s 2013 master plan for construction envi- additional space to accommodate new team locker rooms and sioned a new and larger arena located farther down North Har- coaches’ offices. When the work is completed, before next sea- vard Street, well past , that would have been an son, fans will pass through a new entry, and be served with up- graded concession, merchandise, and rest- room areas. The bleacher seating will be replaced; all the heating, cooling, electrical, and lighting systems will be modernized; and there will be that most au courant of ameni- ties: a jazzy video board and sound system. The renovation will retain the intimate scale of Lavietes and its proximity to the main cam- pus in Cambridge, and is obviously ready soon—perhaps, one can hope, as a venue for the new Ivy League conference tournament, which launches next March at Penn’s venera- Lavietes-to-be: the renovated entry ble . Read complete coverage at har- façade, as it will appear by the beginning of the 2017-2018 season COURTESY OF BRUNER/COTT & ASSOCIATES, INC. vardmag.com/lavietes-16. vj.s.r.

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Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 of the first things she did when recruiting er of the Year who committed Kit Metoyer ’16 was tell the future Crimson to Harvard in part because she co-captain that she wasn’t a good defender. sensed that Delaney-Smith was The comment stung, Metoyer recalled, but a “strong woman”—something that candor—which, several alumnae not- she picked up on thanks to the ed, continued throughout their time at Har- coach’s hyphenated last name. vard—proved beneficial. “You don’t always That points to Delaney- love the person who holds the mirror up to Smith’s long advocacy for wom- you and shows you all of your weaknesses… en and women’s sports. Before while you’re growing,” said Katherine Roll- coming to Harvard, she coached ins ’09, “[but] when you’re on the other end at Westwood (Massachusetts) of it…[you] respect that person so much.” High School, where she com- Delaney-Smith’s emphasis on psychology piled a 204-31 record—and filed and relationship-building does not come at four Title IX lawsuits to ensure the expense of managing her players’ game; that her players had the resourc- rather, it gives the squad the confidence to es they needed, including equi- play in the coach’s adaptive style. On of- table access to the school gym. fense, she encourages her teams to run (i.e., She received numerous college move the ball quickly up the floor) and look coaching inquiries, but the only for a three-pointer in transition—a play she call she took seriously was Har- emphasizes, she explained, because it is a vard’s, because the hiring com- relatively easy and high-yield shot. But she’s mittee demonstrated a commit- prepared to emphasize getting the ball into ment to gender equity. the post during years when she has tall, tal- Nonetheless, Delaney-Smith ented forwards and centers. When the oth- has had to continue her advo- er team has the ball, Delaney-Smith mixes cacy in Cambridge, soliciting aggressive man-to-man defense with un- financial support and promo- orthodox permutations and shifts. These tional coverage for her team unusual defenses­—along with trick plays and, at times, directly con- on offense—keep opponents off guard and fronting sexism. Several recent provide opportunities to engage in “risk- alumnae recalled arriving for a pre-game Close and candid bonds with players have taking” that she and her players enjoy. Fi- shoot-around on the road and discovering helped fuel Delaney-Smith’s success. nally, Delaney-Smith aims to avoid over- that the opposing school’s men’s team oc- score 1,000 points. coaching—she doesn’t want to dampen her cupied the floor. Delaney-Smith—who sub- Delaney-Smith set that record playing players’ instincts and self-assurance with sequently voiced her concerns to the host the now-outmoded six-on-six version of excessive schemes and instructions. university’s administrators—instructed her basketball, so when she began coaching at Delaney-Smith’s competitive drive and players to stand at the edge of the court, Westwood, after graduating from Bridge- her ability to form relationships and mold in hand. water State, she had to learn how to coach her teams have produced extraordinary suc- Such stances have made an impression. five-on-five—the first “act as if” moment in cess. A case in point was that 1998 upset of Stemberg Family coach of men’s basketball her career. She has not stopped since, even Stanford. According to Allison Feaster ’98, Tommy Amaker noted parallels between during the 1999-2000 season, when she un- the fifth pick in that year’s WNBA draft, Delaney-Smith’s journey and that of Demo- derwent chemotherapy for breast cancer. the win was the perfect culmination of four cratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Several years ago, following a disappoint- years of building cohesion. Still, that vic- Similarly, Maura Healey, now attorney gen- ing season, Delaney-Smith considered retir- tory would not have been possible with- eral of Massachusetts, depicted her coach as ing. But while watching the NCAA Tourna- out Feaster, a three-time Ivy League Play- leading by example, and a formative influ- ment, she started diagramming a play—a ence on her career in civil-rights law. signal that the game still energized her. She Delaney-Smith identifies her mother also has a very concrete goal. Having last Harvard Hardwood as her own role model. Peg Delaney laid won an Ivy title in 2008, the coach is em- Follow the men’s and women’s the foundation for “act as if” by phatic about her top priority now: “Win- teams all season long: visit encouraging her children to ning a title. Period.” harvardmag.com/basketball push through injuries. She With the addition of a talented recruit- to read game dispatches and also coached Delaney- ing class led by McDonald’s All-American analysis by David Tannenwald Smith at Newton’s Sacred Jeannie Boehm ’20 and the return of a young ’08, and sign up at Heart High School, where nucleus from last year’s NIT team, the Crim- harvardmag.com/email to her daughter became the son has a legitimate chance of achieving that receive basketball alerts. first woman in Massachu- goal soon. Delaney-Smith is poised for a dra- setts high-school history to matic final act. vdavid l. tannenwald

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