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Harvard will have to win at least 12 of 27 bouts to be regarded as a serious contender for the Ivy title. C.C.N.Y. is strong this year, though still not in the same class with national champion Columbia. The Lions are Harvard's first Ivy League...
...Morris thesis is that France was not, as most historians have assumed, the great champion of American independence. France, he demonstrates, was primarily interested in its war with George III, and considered the U.S. just a handy stick to beat Britain with. Even before the war was over, the Bourbon monarchy did everything diplomatically possible to reduce, partition and even scuttle the brash young nation that had dared dispute the rule of royalty. And during the peace negotiations, France cynically tried to sell the U.S. down the river for the sake of an overall settlement with Britain and Spain...
...role is not a new one for Barnaby. Every year he digs into his supply of inexperienced prep school graduates and converted tennis players to find replacements for his top seniors. Last year Barnaby had to fill gap left by a graduating national champion and four other three-year lettermen. This year he is without his top four players, all of whom have graduated...
Gonzalez, the current national junior champion, will play behind Adams at number two. Sterne, last year's freshman intercollegiate champ, is in the third spot. There will probably be some shuffling in these first three positions before the season is far gone. On the freshman team last year, Sterne played number one, and Gonzalez was second. Neither came close to losing a match...
Oklahoma State's Yojiro Ustake at 130 looks like the sure thing of the tournament. Uetake is an Olympic champion has never lost a collegiate match, and his photograph graces the cover of a national collegiate wrestling handbook...