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This system will be tested against some mighty firm defenses, starting with Williams. Ivy champion Brown is usually the toughest, and the Bruins' smothering 6-1 win over '65 runnerup Penn last Saturday showed that they are still the toughest team to score against and despite their 1-0 loss to Wesleyan, still the team to beat...
Amherst may seem like small-time opposition, and of course the Lord Jeffs, along with Williams and Wesleyan, are dubbed the Little Three in comparison with Harvard (and two other Ivy League schools). But there is nothing little about the way they play soccer: Wesleyan beat Ivy League champion Brown this week, 1-0, and Amherst has won three of its last five games with the Crimson...
...loss was considerably brightened by the debut of Hardin, who became the second sophomore in 25 years to win his first varsity race. The first was Walt Hewlett '66, and it looks as if the small, unimposing sophomore from Short Hills, N.J., may continue to follow in that former champion's footsteps...
...World Series is supposed to match the winners of golfs top four tournaments -the U.S. Open, the Masters, the British Open and the P.G.A. Three of the slots were easy to fill: Billy Casper won the Open, Al Geiberger won the P.G.A., and Jack Nicklaus was the Masters, champion. But Nicklaus also won the British Open. That left an open slot, and under the rules, it belonged to the winner of the Western Open. Only that was Billy Casper. So the promoters had to go all the way back to the winner of last year's Canadian Open...
Though long expected, word of his retirement caught Wall Streeters unprepared. Throughout almost all the long postwar bull market, Funston has been the symbol and champion of the New York Stock Exchange's Corinthian-columned citadel, a man who helped change its image from that of a clubby, tricky place to that of a respectable and generally profitable market for everyman. After his announcement last week, a score of names were bruited about as possible successors; they ranged from Richard M. Nixon to Walter...