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...point-getters, VPW and Embree, evinced a low-key happiness concerning their winning efforts. Embree erased any doubt that his previous high of 7 ft. 1/4 in. was a fluke by jumping the same height again Saturday. At first he commented only that his victory "was hep." But Harvard's finest high jumper even later mentioned that he was "looking forward to the upcoming IC4A's and Nationals...
...running squad, however, that holds the key to Crimson title hopes. Ric Rojas, who has turned torried in the last few weeks, will be on hand to prove that his 13:30.4 three mile in the Penn Relays was not a fluke. "He has a good chance of winning that one," Stowell said before the meet...
Hess Yntema, after a fluke wave emptied into his mouth causing him to miss a stroke during the butterfly leg of the medley relay, turned in an outstanding triple, the only one of the three-day meet. He owned the 200-yd. distance, winning handily in the 200-yd. I.M., the 200-yd. freestyle, and 200-yd. butterfly, and anchoring the victorious 800-yd. free relay. Teammate Tom Wolf came within a shade of winning the 100-yd. back, in the process breaking the only record left from the pre-Gambril-Essick era, and ran away from everybody...
...fourth accomplishment for the Crimson came at Cornell's Lynah Rink. Harvard won in Ithaca for the first time in ten years and was the first Ivy League team to win there in nearly 50 games. The win was no fluke; it was a convincing 7-4 come-from-behind victory. The Cornell conquest also came just a night after Harvard won an exhausting 8-6 contest at Colgate. So Harvard had swept its second road trip in very unfriendly surroundings...
Folks, it did happen and it was no fluke. Yale played smart and aggressive hockey. Knowing that Harvard was weakened by the loss of two players, Kevin Carr and Kevin Burke, and figuring that Cleary had ordered his men not to play recklessly with an ECAC berth clinched, the Elis repeatedly took runs at small Harvard players like Randy Roth and Jimmy Thomas...