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McLaughlin wasn't far wrong in his dire prediction, with the Crimson making the long trip out to California look like a 6000-mile suicide drill, falling to Stanford, 93-70, before a crowd of 3000 at the Cardinals' Maples Pavilion...
...only freshmen on a squad picked by some experts to sneak away with this year's Ivy title. Ferry and Standley were struggling against a full-court press drill, while Duckett cajoled from the sideline, "You can be a hero, if you only use your head...
...Harvard drill master David Pinto '82 last week also declined comment on his band's show, except to say "our shows have been decent this year--it'll probably be very funny." He added that the group will perform "all the usual football stuff" (like "Harvardiana," "Veritas." "Grid Iron King," and Tom Lehrer's "Fight Fiercely Harvard) and will probably be very tired after having performed at the New York Harvard Club the night before. "Whether our team wins or loses we'll serenade them after The Game," Pinto said...
...watched the full cycle of basic: "Some men and women couldn't run; some men cried and were scared. The most important differences were between people when it came to training soldiers." For the most part, she concludes, the success of either sex depended on how well the drill sergeants dealt with those individual differences...
Women often do better at riflery than men because they listen to instruction while men tend to think they know it all. A veteran male drill sergeant, proud of his work with female recruits, tells Rogan...