University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

 - Class of 1979

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WINTER SPORTS It was not the best of years for Coach Ron Rainey and his Blue Hen basketball team in the 1978- 79 winter. At one point Delaware dropped 11 ball games in a row and finished out the season with a disappointing 5-22 mark. There was one bright spot: the Hens' 96-88 victory over ECC champ Bucknell at Delaware Field- house in the last reqular season game. Rainey cleared his bench and everyone responded with a superb performance, especially senior and team captain Mark Man- cini. The schedule proved tough for Delaware, as they had to face high- caliber teams such as Virginia Tech, Virginia, Temple, and 5t. Joe's. One early Hen victory showed their potential as Delaware rocked perennial power South Carolina 84-72 in Roanoke, Va. Unfortunately, that potential never again surfaced, with the exception of the final Bucknell game and one or two other con- tests. Delaware beat Glassboro by a point to improve their mark to 2-6 just after the new year be- gan, but following was a tough 72-70 setback on the road to Fair- field College, as well as road losses to Howard, Vermont, and Virginia. The ECC again proved competi- tive as teams like Hofstra, Lehigh and West Chester managed to out- shoot the Hens, as well as usual strongholds Lafayette and Buck- nell,

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Autumn on the U. of D. campus, is always a spectacle. A very pleasant Indian summer made this fall season a very comfortable time of frisbees, football, and fun. As the first nip in the air hinted at winter, the trees turned their tech- nicolor tricks and witches and gob- lins haunted the leaf-carpeted lawns. By Halloween, no one could deny that another traditional year of school was well under way. 15

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