Word: champness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heisler, like Glass, a fast, scrappy defender, usually plays as sixth man. The 5 ft. 9 in. guard was the 1966 Ohio junior golf champ and plans to try out for the Harvard freshman linksmen this spring...
Going into the meet with a 5-1 overall record, 3-0 in the Ivy League including a defeat of perennial Ivy champ Cornell, the Crimson was derailed by a perennial New England champion...
...some impressive squash over intersession to reach the finals of the John Jacobs Invitational Tournament at the Harvard Club of New York. The Crimson southpaw advanced through a strong field and beat McGill's Peter Martin in the semi-finals. Martin, it will be remembered, is Canada's intercollegiate champ and gave Harvard's top man, Anil Nayar, a five-game battle in their last meeting. An hour and a half after beating Martin, Sterne had to play the finals, which he lost to Andy Mulver...
...quotient by moving to Houston, as thirty seconds of lip-baring during the pre-round-one rule recitation amply displayed. But he never whimpered about Terrell's consistent fouling. Any humiliation he administered was both fully merited and infinitely more legitimate than the challenger's behavior. And if the champ did denigrate his beaten opponent, it was only after Terrell had alibied his defeat with a story of having an eye rubbed on the ropes, a claim that seemed totally unfounded...
...early period of Ali's reign to speak condescendingly and broadly intimate that every win was worthless or a fluke. Now he devotes his words to each challenger's courage and gameness. When Cosell started praising Terrell to Ali's face, we had faint hopes that the champ would make good his pre-fight threat that he would turn on the sportscaster next...