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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atwood beat Jim Baker across the finish line in last year's freshman meet (Bob Stempson didn't run in that one), but he has been slightly less impressive as a varsity performer. Behind Atwood the Indians have next to nothing...
Harvard played the junior Eagles even in the second half, but couldn't score again until the fourth quarter, when Bob Machin blocked a punt and Tony Kilkuskie recovered the loose ball in the end zone. Then in a spectacular but hopeless finish, Berg passed 32 yards to halfback Gary Strandemo, who made an acrobatic grab on the goal line as the final gun sounded...
...used to running counterclockwise, on flat dirt tracks. Like most French races, the Arc is run clockwise, and Longchamp's 1½-mile grass track is anything but flat: in the middle, it is 38 ft. higher than at the start and finish. Jockey Willie Shoemaker still insisted that Tom Rolfe had a chance. "This colt is hickory," said The Shoe...
...trouble with hickory is that it bends, and so did Tom Rolfe-in the wrong direction. Fighting for the lead around the last turn, just three-eighths of a mile from the finish, he tried to go left instead of right. By the time Shoemaker got him straightened out, the plucky little (950 lbs.) colt had lost a good deal of ground and most of his enthusiasm. Charging up from sixth place, looping the leaders and pulling away in the stretch, favorite Sea Bird romped to an easy six-lengths victory -while Tom Rolfe faded all the way back...
Harvard's fifth scorer was tennis buff Clive Kileff, who lagged early in the race but made up ground fast when he mistook the three-mile mark for the finish line and started sprinting by the also-rans...