Word: cooperation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard, on the other hand, must rely on a relatively small number of truly amazing swimmers, such as Bobby Hackett, Malcolm Cooper, Julian Mack and Michael Coglin, to place in the top two or three in a few key events. The Crimson also has a huge advantage in the diving events, where all four of its solid competitors could make the finals in both events, and in the relays...
...Crimson should never really have let the match get as close as it did. They led 6-2 early on as Debbie Sze and Kathy Lowry both swept past their first two opponents, and Cooper and Leslie Feder split their first two bouts...
Thirty-six seconds left, Brandeis up 8-7 in bouts, Harvard leading the last bout 4-1, the meet tied 55-55 in touches. Thirty seconds left, 25...20...15...10.... Cooper beats Mejias's blade down, lunges forward, touches her in the underarm. Harvard takes the match by one touch, the Harvard fencers stream onto the strip cheering frantically, joy abounds...
Then, due in part to a scheduling mix-up, but also in part to poor Crimson fencing against a Brandeis team much worse than the Judges' 1977 second-place New England Championship squad, Harvard began to fall apart. Lowry Sze, Feder and Cooper, in that order, lost four straight bouts, and suddenly the score was tied...
Then, after Sze pushed Harvard out in front again, Lowry--hampered by an aggravated knee injury--and Feder lost and lost badly by scores 5-2 and 5-0. That left the match up to Cooper and her last-second heroics...