Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diver Bill Murphy, last year's Eastern Seaboard three meter diving champion, hit his head on the board while doing an inward flip, his fourth dive of the day, in the three meter event. The junior champion broke his nose and suffered deep cuts across the brow of his head...
Nayar, as defending Singles Champion, will be seeded number one in the competition, and Canadian Martin will probably get the second spot. That means that those two won't meet until the final round, if they both survive...
Anil Nayar, the defending Singles Champion and twice Indian National Champion, heads Harvard's star-studded contingent. Nayar is favored to keep his crown, but Pete Martin of McGill University is potential trouble...
...next three Harvard men--Larry Terrell, Jose Gonzalez, and Captain Rick Sterne--have all done battle with Martin. Sophomore Terrell, last year's National Junior Champion, has lost to the the Canadian twice this year, but both matches were heart-breakers. Gonzalez, who took the National Junior Championship his freshman and sophomore years, stopped Martin this year. Former Freshman Intercollegiate Champion Sterne has also beaten Martin...
Team captain Pete Alter--also a senior--has been overshadowed all year by the Eastern three-meter champion, junior Bill Murphy. But Alter has come through with the seconds that the team really needed to supplement its superstars' victories...