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However, Harvard's assistant women's track coach John Babington, who has coached Beckford on the AAU Liberty Club since 1977, has an explanation: "Darlene's temperament is such that she'd rather concentrate her efforts over short, intense races than over 18 minutes. She just doesn't get as much spontaneous enjoyment out of running cross country...
Lundberg qualified for the Games by being a finalist in both the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke at the National Amateur Athletic Union's (AAU) Longcourse swimming championships in august. In Mexico, he swam the breaststroke leg for the United States' 400-meter medley relay team, a squad that beat the Russian team by 0.8 seconds for the gold medal while setting a meet record...
While Jackson was trying to convince Harvard, he also had to turn around and sell the Boston Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) on the idea. Although initially unenthusiastic, the local boxing officials were impressed that Jackson had already lined up several New York Golden Glovers through Dick Mc Guire, his football trainer and boxing instructor at Fordham Prep. A 40-year veteran of the fight game, McGuire helped Jackson convince the Boston AAU of the project's feasibility...
...Robbie Sims (the half-brother of Marvin Hagler), winner of the outstanding fighter award at the New England AAU championships and a definite Olympic contender, will head the card," Jackson said excitedly, as he peddled tickets in the Lowell dining hall. Hundreds of phone calls and miles of legwork later, George Jackson not only sounds like, but is, the promoting wunderkind of boxing at Harvard. Division Boston New York 106 lb. Joe Roach Louis Hernandez 112 lb. Eddic Reardon George Pimentell 119 lb. Jimmie Lyons Jorge Vasquez 125 lb. Tony Verga Steven Boyd 132 lb. John Curran Mike Dominquez...
Greacen will dive next week in a national AAU qualifying meet at the University of Minnesota...