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Yesterday afternoon, the Crimson harriers traveled to Columbia's Van Cortland Park to compete in the annual Heptagonal Championship Meet. Expectations were moderate, and rightly so as Harvard finished seventh behind a host of running powerhouses. But somewhat surprising were the outstanding performances of the Crimson freshmen...
...individual competition, David Merrick of Pennsylvania crossed the tape far ahead of aayone (24:15.4), setting a new record for Heptagonal Championship competition. The previous mark (24:31) was set by Merrick himself in 1971, but the new mark still falls short of the course record (24:00.0). Curt Alitz of Army was second (24:47) followed by Princeton's Larry Trackenbery...
...onto Yale and "The (House) Game" for the gridders from Kirkland House. The perennial kingpins of Harvard intramural football clinched the House League championship yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, with a 6-0 whitewashing of Eliot House...
...first five tense, volatile contests (TIME, Oct. 27) were merely a prelude to the final fireworks. Game six opened with the Reds one win away from the championship. When it ended at 12:33 a.m., they were still one short. "What the hell," said Cincinnati Third Baseman Pete Rose, later voted the Series' most valuable player, "it had to be the greatest World Series game in history." Indeed, aside from Fred Lynn's numbing collision with the centerfield wall after barely missing a long Ken Griffey fly, at least three Red Sox feats outdid Hollywood. There were Pinch...
Reds' Squeaker. In game seven the pace barely diminished as the Reds, on the strength of slam-bang base running by Rose and decisive hits by Tony Perez and Joe Morgan, won a squeaker and the championship. The Boston Globe said it all the next day in a frontpage banner headline: REDS WIN-BUT WHAT A YEAR WE HAD! And what a Series...