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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While White never achieved the wide honors that accompany most three-sport athletes, she attained notoriety as possibly the finest all-around athlete Harvard has ever seen. Rarely has one person been such an instrumental part of three championship teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Performance and Ambition | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...will forget Allard's finest hour--his brilliant dismantling of Yale in the most lopsided Game in history. And fewer still will forget the infamous slapshot from the blue line--the Fusco trademark that in four years brought the men's hockey squad from the depths of despair and into national prominence...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Award-Winning Cast: | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...they are only two heroes of Harvard's best athletic year ever. Departing with Allard and Fusco is perhaps the finest slew of athletes to grace the Harvard fields in recent memory. Graduating today is Adam Dixon, who helped bring a string of Heptagonal trophies to Cambridge for the men's track team. And Howard Sands, who turned the Crimson's men's tennis team into a national powerhouse...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Award-Winning Cast: | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

Hockey's answer to the Heisman Trophy and given annually to the finest college hockey player, the Hobey Baker was given to Fusco at the NCAA championship tournament in March, and proved a fitting ending to his college career. But he vows to continue in the game--he will decide between the Olympic trials and a pro career later this month...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Award-Winning Cast: | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...time in Cambridge, the Harvard squad went from being a very mediocre club to one that by this season's end could compete with the nation's finest. And while fellow seniors Adam Beren and Warren Grossman played a key role in the team's climb, the major spark proved to be Sands...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Award-Winning Cast: | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

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