Word: adedeji
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remember Chris Papagianis, Felix Adedeji, Demetrio Mena, and Emmanuel Ekama? They're all former Harvard soccer greats. And now there is an American preppie making a strong bid to join this prestigious foreign cast, sophomore striker Lyman Bullard...
...middle of this season, the problem of bench strength became acute. Felix Adedeji became injured, Bent Hinze and Dragan Vujovic returned to Europe last year, Jean-Pierre Gilbert of Luxembourg quit after the Penn game, and Crimson head coach Bruce Munro could find very few healthy and talented bodies to fill...
Harvard will be weakened by the loss of Felix Adedeji for the seventh straight game and the probability that fullback Steve Mead will not play tonight because of a badly sprained ankle...
Nobody, least of all Bruce Munro, expected much out of the soccer team when the season began. For all practical purposes, the team seemed doomed way back last Spring, when Bent Hinze and Dragon Vujovic came to a parting of the ways with Mother Harvard, leaving only Felix Adedeji to take up the scoring slack. With Adedeji sitting out the last six games with a twisted knee, Munro has to dig deep into his bag of tricks to produce a winner...
Nobody can fault Adedeji for the unfortunate string of injuries he has suffered in the last two seasons and his long periods of convalescence. After all, he's been playing soccer most of his life, he's got a wife and medical school applications to worry about, and coming to Harvard after playing on the Nigerian Olympic team at 16, he was playing for fun and soccer ceases to be fun when you are forced to play in constant pain...