Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Bruce Munro expects the Crimson to get rough competition from Maryland, last year's national champion, and from Navy, whose lacrosse team ranked third in the country. The season schedule follows...
...team members why they went undefeated, and to a man they will point to McCurdy as the chief motivating factor--McCurdy, the master of psychology, the champion juggler, the spiritual leader who could get the most out of his personnel. To them, he was the biggest factor in their success story, one of the finest in Harvard athletics...
...Spain, another conquered the Canary Islands, a third sailed with Conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez unsuccessful expedition to Florida. The current and 17th Marquis de Portago does his dangerous living in the world of sports. At 28. lean and swarthy Alfonso de Portago has been a champion jai-alai player, a fine swimmer, a superb polo player, a leading gentleman jockey, an Olympic bobsled star, and is one of the best sports-car racers in the world. When he rolls his sleek, shovel-nosed 3.5-liter Ferrari up to the starting line for the Florida International twelve...
...afraid, so I have an advantage by going into sports where others might be scared. Adventure is like religion. And in religion you have to have faith. I have faith in myself." Alfonso is confident that in two years he will be the racing-car champion of the world...
...Commuter Cycle. A mile-a-minute bike was brought out by Bianchi, Italy's oldest bikemaker, who hopes to sell it to commuters in the U.S. to ride to the railroad station. Bianchi's new "World Champion" has ten gears operated by a hand shift, weighs only 23 lbs. (v. an average 47 lbs. for standard U.S. bikes) and has hit 60 m.p.h. ridden by Italian bike-racing Champion Fausto Coppi. Ordinary pedal pushers, says Bianchi, can do 50 m.p.h. without trouble. Price in Italy: $75. Price in U.S.: about...