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...weather was horrendous for track and field competition yesterday, forcing four field events indoors, but it made little difference to the Harvard-Yale thinclads in their meet with a squad of Oxford-Cambridge, England athletes. The Crimson-Eli tandem crushed the visiting English team, 11-5, to win its fourth straight in this international series...
...Crimson lacrosse team capped its '73 campaign rather sloppily Saturday, as even a second-half rally failed to catch a hard-hitting bunch from Yale, in the 6-5 Eli triumph...
Although ranked sixth in New England last week over Harvard's ninth place, Eli scoring has been dismal, with a 3.4 goal average. The only threat for Yale is Baltimorean Bruce Smith, who has accounted for six of Yale's 17 points in 0-5 Ivy play...
...stayed the same until the Tigers began their sprint with 400 meters to go. Princeton sprinted about 10 strokes before the Crimson reacted and picked up three seats in the process. Harvard then began its sprint but again both crews stayed deadlocked down to the wire. And again the Eli crew was out of it, five lengths back of the leaders...
...like Casey Stengel, who once tipped his hat to the crowd and released a bird that was nesting in his hair; Bobo Holloman, who pitched only one complete game in the majors-and that one a no-hitter. There are players whose names alone could render them immortal: Eli Grba, Fenton Mole, Eppa Rixey, Wally Pipp, Napoleon Lajoie. All these men, the immortals and the "flakes," exist like the game beyond the erosions of style and time...