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...Basically, I was telling these guys that every one of them could win their match," co-captain John Doran said...
Columbia started the day strong, winning the doubles point by sweeping the three doubles matches. Salil Seshadri and Akram Zaman defeated the No. 1 team of co-captain Joe Green and Styperek 8-6, and the No. 2 pairing of sophomore William Lee and freshman Dave Lingman fell to the Lions' Sam Josephs and Donny Opici 9-7. Mickey Kaplan and Peter Holik completed the sweep by beating juniors Mike Rich and Anthony Barker 8-5, giving Columbia a 1-0 team lead...
What made the championship even more impressive was that the Crimson did it without the help of co-captain and top player John Doran. Doran has been suffering from patella tendonitis, and while he traveled with the team and hoped to get in his first action of the season, his knee wouldn...
Some veterans say the killing started on an order from their commander, Captain Melbourne Chandler (now dead), who was acting on radioed orders from headquarters. "We were ordered to shoot and kill anything because a lot of them were North Koreans who might set up machine guns in rice paddies and shoot at us," says Delos Flint of Clio, Mich., then a private. Other members of the battalion say they fired in response to muzzle flashes from the darkened arches late on July...
...People have stepped up all over the field," co-captain Jessica Larson said. "We no longer depend only on certain players to pull us through. Everyone is expected to get the job done...