Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...representative in the N.C.A.A. championships. The fans are already atremble with anticipation, scalpers are busy preparing hefty markups, to $225 or more a ticket, and the teams are mulling over old grudges. Predictably, the team that went into the tourney with the best record has wound up losing the event ten times in its 25-year run. The pain of defeat is not as great as it once was, however, since the N.C.A.A. recently has been inviting two A.C.C. teams...
Jumbo Elliott calls Nehemiah the smoothest hurdler he has ever seen and, indeed, Nehemiah visualizes his event as a nearly unimpeded run down a straightaway. "I try to run right through the hurdle, as though it's not even there," he says. "A lot of hurdlers, you can see the jump when they run. With me, it's more or less running, then an exaggerated stride for the hurdle...
...three-meter event, Schramm fell to 11th place after five dives, then gradually worked his way up to fifth at the finish. "It was just a gutsy performance," diving coach John Walker said afterwards. "I couldn't be more proud...
Gauthier and Seelen, who had performed creditably but far from brilliantly during Harvard's undefeated dual meet season, were both simply outstanding over the weekend, scoring--between them--79 of the Crimson's 500 individual event points...
...Menichella, a sophomore butterflyer, placed ninth in the 100-yd. fly and seventh in the 200, despite not being among the top sixteen in either event going into the meet...