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Walt Hewlett dropped out of the two-mile race about half-way through because of a pain in the calf. Since Harvard didn't need the points. Hewlett didn't want to risk injury before the Yale meet and the Heptagonals. But Dave Allen added four points to Harvard's already fat lead as he took second...
...drawn about 55 Dunsterites in its first week, is fully inequipped with all forms of muscle-building contraptions. In addition to seven barbells, seven pairs of dumbells, and 1500 pounds of weights, it boasts such instruments of torture as a leg-press machine, a parallel dipping bar, a calf machine, and an abdominal board...
...Glen Franklin, 29, has won more "go-rounds" and money ($152,481) than most. Until last week, though, one prize had always eluded him: the silver and gold belt buckle and embossed saddle that are awarded each year to the winner of the Rodeo Cowboys Association's calf-roping championship-and which, for five straight years, had gone to Idaho's "King of the Ropers,", Dean Oliver...
...rodeo's five events (others: steer wrestling, bull riding, saddle and bareback bronc riding), calf roping is the most delicate and difficult. The "calves" are mean, 300-lb. Branguses that can smash a man's ribs or knock out half his teeth with one kick. On horseback, the roper must run down and lasso the charging calf-then leap from his horse, wrestle the infuriated animal onto its side, loop three of its legs together with a "pigging string" and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" knot. The race is against time (experts...
...point on, though, the contest is strictly man against beast. Last week, at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, Franklin gave a superb demonstration of his skills. On his seventh "go-round," Glen lost precious seconds when he got off to a slow start, had to chase his calf halfway across the arena before he got within lariat range. Leaping out of the saddle, pigging string clutched in his teeth, he flung the calf to the ground and climbed astride, pinning the flailing legs between his own knees and "windmilling" the string around the animal's ankles. Throwing...