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Much-storied Yale football star Brian Dowling and hitherto unheralded Harvard ace Frank Champi matched vocal cunning on Saturday's quiz show, Dating Game, and both lost out to some hotshot from the West Coast with a moustache...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Champi, Dowling Draw Again, 0-0 | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

...saved from a worse rout by the absence of Dick Benka, Harvard's star weights man, and ace distance runners Royce Shaw and Dave Pottetti, Shaw was merely recuperating from his triple win against Army, while Benka, Pottetti, and others are out due to injuries and other complications. The Crimson has a layoff of a month as their next meet is against Northeastern on January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spengler, Nosal Pace Track Team As Crimson Humbles Eagles, 68-41 | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

...yard as the anchor men received the batons. Shaw was, running for the Crimson against Larry Lemaster, the winner in the 600-yard run. Shaw attempted to pass Lemaster on three straightaways, but Lemaster refused to yield and hit the tape half-a-yard ahead of Harvard's ace to give his team...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Army Edges Varsity Track Team, 57-51, Despite Superb Showing by Royce Shaw | 12/16/1968 | See Source »

...diving competition disappointed the Crimson, for Harvard ace Bill Murphy had to settle for second place in both the three-meter and the one-meter behind Army's Ed Greene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tankers Sink Before Army | 12/9/1968 | See Source »

...single-edge razor blade from a drawer, and carves the word FOOL into his wrist. Cut to... etc., etc." Occasionally during the first months of production Steve Lerner, the lead, would ask me how I intended to fake it. Finally the night before the scheduled filming, I revealed my ace in the hole--namely that we weren't going to fake...

Author: By Kevin Brownlow, | Title: The Parade's Gone By... | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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