Cross sections for the He(n, p) reaction were measured at angles of 2.7 ', 7.5', 14.4', 28.2', and 34. 9' (c.m. ) at an incident beam energy of 288 MeV. Outgoing protons were observed to energies corresponding to a Q value of -40 MeV. The reduced cross section for the Gamow-Teller component of the ground-state isobaric-analog transition was determined to be & =o(q =0)/BGT =6.9+0.2 mb jsr. This value is significantly smaller than that observed for nuclei in the mass range 6~A~1 3. A multipole analysis of the data indicates that the cross section of the continuum up to a g value of -20 MeV involves mainly hL =1 spin dipole transitions. The analysis determines an upper limit of 0.06 units of Gamow-Teller strength in transitions to excited states between 7 and 16 MeV, but is consistent with no Gamow-Teller strength in this region. Distorted wave impulse approximation calculations using transition amplitudes from a large-scale shell model calculation provide a good fit to the measured groundstate cross section, but fail to account for the magnitude of the measured cross sections to the continuum below 30 MeV excitation.PACS number(s): 24.50.+ g, 25.40.Kv, 27.10.+h