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...home opener, Harvard meets defending NCAA National Champion Stanford. In search of other top competitors, Pike has the squad travelling to Annapolis to battle nationally ranked Air Force at a neutral site in October, and has requested berths against Eastern powers Fordham and Bucknell in the Brown Invitational the last weekend in September...
Operating off the Fordham University campus in Bronx, N.Y. for eight years. Bernal started a second club when he took over the reins at Harvard in September...
...voluntarily and those who repeat for academic reasons. But officials in Texas, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Louisiana admit the practice has become routine at some schools. In Georgia, the number of holdbacks has become so widespread that the state legislature ordered an investigation into the issue. Says Bill Fordham, executive director of the Georgia High School Athletic Association: "More and more schools are doing it because it's legal. The end will come when the taxpayers decide they're not going to pay to set up football factories in their schools...
...their hopes on an athletic future to the detriment of normal educational and social growth. Nearly 1 million boys play high school football, but only 21,500 of them win scholarships to major colleges and universities. And only 333 college players were drafted by the pros last year. Insists Fordham: "The coaches request it, and the parents buy it. The kids who are good enough to make it on talent, the ones you read about in the sports pages, are never held back. It's the marginal athletes who do it, hoping that something magical will happen. But having...
...Hackett, swimming has been a year round commitment for 13 years. He's spent the last ten years under Bernal who coached him at Fordham Prep before they both arrived on the Harvard scene in the fall of 1977, and during the off season as a member of Bernal's Gators. Those ten years have been serious. Dead serious...