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Before Frick and Frack entered the English lexicon as a term for an inseparable pair of buffoons, it referred to a popular ice-skating comedy duo. Beginning in the late 1930s, Frick, Werner Groebli, and his partner, Frack, Hans Rudolph Mauch, performed some 15,000 shows incorporating a unique mixture of pantomime, physical comedy and athleticism. "People think our skating is eccentric. It's not so," Groebli told TIME during the pair's first U.S. tour, in 1939. "Any figure skater should be able to do a serious spread eagle"--in which he skates with his body bent backward nearly...
...always, Harvard will look to its duo of senior starters, Shawn Haviland and Brad Unger, to keep its opponent off the scoreboard. Last weekend against Brown, each pitcher recorded a complete game victory to lead the Crimson to the weekend sweep...
...senior Vilsa Curto, a former Crimson photography executive, suffered a quick 8-3 defeat to open the match.In the No. 1 position, Megan Zebroski and Molly Scott secured the point for the Big Green with a close 8-6 win over junior Beier Ko and freshman Samantha Rosekrans. The duo of Ko and Rosekrans, which led the squad with six doubles victories in 2008, has been Harvard’s most consistent team this season.With the doubles point already in hand, Dartmouth’s No. 2 pairing overcame junior Laura Peterzan and captain Stephanie Schnitter 8-7 (3). Although...
...success of the duo has not been an overnight phenomenon. Having been a prominent fixture of the doubles lineup for the past two seasons, Kumar and Ermakov have gained All-Ivy Doubles honors and qualified for the NCAA Tournament, in addition to reaching No. 15 in the national rankings. But with patchy records over the past two years, consistency has eluded them—until...
Despite Kumar’s impending graduation set to split this acclaimed double act next season, the duo intends to end its college tennis career on a high...