Another Christmas tree was kidnapped by a player from its home outside a Fifth Avenue store. The new owner proceeded to haul it back to the Penn Garden and transplant it between the springs of his bed. This monument was reportedly a rallying spot for celebrants throughout the night.

However, the managers claim in Harvard's defense that Yale and Bowdoin were also going crazy and were celebrating on the eighth and twelfth floors respectively.

This prompted the question, did the managers feel any duty to check on players after they were supposed to be in bed to make sure nobody was flying around the town? All the managers agreed that no Harvard coach would demand this. But they did say that in most cases the managers pick motels which are strategically located outside the center of the city, where the possibilities of a night on the town are somewhat limited.

Coaches Help Out

"One thing with track is that when you stay at a Holiday Inn that's fifty miles outside the city. the only thing around is the bar, and McCurdy and Stowell are usually in there," Dan Pagnano revealed. "So, anybody who comes in notices McCurdy's stern little face and just turns around and runs right back up to his room. This helps us to control them a little." Pagnano said.

However, it was pointed out that you can't always count on the coach coming through even for the manager. Three years ago, the track team went to the Indoor Heptagonals at Cornell with a squad that really wasn't supposed to do well.

But Harvard won to break a two-year Army string and everyone decided that the thing to do was to go back to the Holiday Inn and celebrate. So the manager called ahead and informed the motel that it should put out all the champagne in the house.

As things turned out, the squad went through all the champagne and after that all the rose from the cellar before the chartered plane left. The bill came to $280. The president of the Friends of Harvard Track was present and offered to foot the bill, but McCurdy refused, saying that it was about time some people learned a lesson. So McCurdy got the bill, figured it per head and charged everyone for his share. This seven-dollar liquor bill eventually appeared on the June 1968 term bill as miscellaneous athletic fees.

(Friday-Part III: A Managerial Paranoia-The Unexpected.)