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...easy win for Harvard, as expected, but Coach Bill McCurdy was not as happy as one would have expected. This was the first time that Harvard has had to cope with a pace other than its own--that is, in each of the earlier meets, either Shaw or Hardin had dominated the race and the team had hung close together...
...Lowell North won gold medals. In shooting, Nebraska's Gary Anderson, a 29-year-old Army lieutenant, scored 1,157 out of a possible 1,200 points to win the free-rifle competition and break his own world record. Competing in his fourth Olympics, Connecticut's Bill Steinkraus, a 43-year-old book editor, earned the U.S. its first equestrian gold medal in 20 years when he piloted a borrowed, gimpy-legged, nine-year-old gelding named Snowbound to victory in the Grand Prix jumping event...
...time ever recorded for the metric mile. The thin air may have been a boon to Oregon's Dick Fosbury, whose unorthodox, over-the-bar-backwards, high-jumping style propelled him to an Olympic record height of 7 ft. 41 in. It certainly did nothing to slow down Bill Toomey, whose speed afoot was the major factor in his decathlon victory...
...Coaches Bill McCurdy and Pappy Hunt have pulled out all stops in their efforts to get their charges up for the big meet. The varsity has sported crimson berets all week, and Hunt broke out a set of "Beat Yale" ties before the team left Cambridge yesterday. The walls of Dillon Feld House have been covered with signs and posters to drive home the importance of the meets to both varsity and J.V. runners...
...Crimson harriers have won nine races in a row this season and 21 straight dual meets over a three-year span. Coach Bill McCurdy feels his squad should have little trouble adding its traditional rivals to the string...