Word: crowning
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...book, play, movie, song or magazine. It cannot be a famous racing name (Man o' War, Citation), no matter how long that name has been out of use. With all those restrictions, it was hardly surprising that the horses in this year's Triple Crown competition bore such undistinguished sobriquets as T.V. Commercial, Draft Card, Call Me Prince, Sir Beau and Forward Pass. The horse that captured the Belmont Stakes was Greentree Stable's Stage Door Johnny, whose name reflected rare wit and imagination on the part of its owners-John Hay Whitney and his sister Joan...
Sparked by Jim Baker, the Harvard cross country team raced to its first Heptagonal (the Ivies plus Army and Navy) crown in over a decade. No harrier squad had put together an undefeated dual meet season, a Big 3 victory and the Heps title in one campaign since the late...
...baseball title was believable as was, in retrospect, the tennis crown, but absolutely no one could picture the golf team as the best in the East. But on a rainy day in Princeton, N.J., paced by sophomore Yank Heisler, the golfers surprised the experts, not to mention Penn State and Princeton. Captain Bo Keefe and Bruce Lo-Pucki split the year at number one and Joe Tibbits (who lost a playoff for the Greater Boston individual title to Keefe), Jack Purdy, Tom Wynne and Paul Oldfield filled out the lineup. The golfers will compete in the NCAA's next week...
...Tournament, Parrot emerged as the third highest scorer in Harvard history behind Bob Cleary and Gene Kinasewich. After the hockey season, he played his way into the number four singles spot on the tennis team. In the crucial victory over Penn, which assured Harvard a share of the Eastern crown, Parrot won his singles match and then teamed with Jose Gonzalez in the pivotal doubles match of the 5-4 Harvard decision...
...years. Last week, the athletic department gave final approval for the team to play in the NCAA Championships June 19-22 at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Harvard earned an invitation to the tournament by fighting back in a driving rain storm several weeks ago to win its first Eastern Intercollegiate Crown in 40 years...