Word: championing
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Lost from last winter's undefeated, Heptagonal champion team are broad jumper Chris Ohiri and distance runner Ed Meehan, two of the squad's most consistent scorers. But among this year's sophomore additions are Sam Robinson, holder of the freshman 440 record (0:48.8), Wayne Anderson, co-holder of the freshman 100 mark (0:09.9), and Charlie Njoku, who has high jumped...
Teaming with Awori in the hurdles will be junior Tony Lynch, a third-place finisher in last year's indoor Heps, and champion in the Big Three and Greater Boston meets. Lynch is at his best running the longer distances outdoors, but even at 60 yards he may be the best hurdler in the league...
...were to follow this advice, the first stop would be a slope such as the near-by Blue Hills Ski Area in Milton, Mass. Complete with chairlift and snowmaking machine, the area's ski school is under the direction of Olympic Champion Penny Pitou and her husband Egon Zimmerman. Only 30 minutes from Boston via Routes 9 and 128 South, Blue Hills could be a convenient local practice slope as well as the first stop of formal New England ski tour...
...tournament was the year's first competition for the 25-member Harvard Judo Club, coached by six-time New England champion Edmund Mede...
...Self-depreciation has always been my vice," Henry Adams once remarked. A man whose grandfather and greatgrandfather had been U.S. Presidents might be entitled to think himself the "champion failure of all," but Henry was the best writer the Adams family ever produced, and posterity has found him perhaps the most fascinating member of all. In this third volume of a massively detailed biography of Adams, covering the last three decades of his life following his wife Marian's death in 1885, Northwestern University's Ernest Samuels comes closer than anyone else to explaining the enigmatic Adams...