Word: gopher
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Zachary M. Puchtel ’07 transferred to the University of Minnesota after his junior year at Harvard and spent two years as a Golden Gopher, playing for a Big Ten basketball program. He’s now back at Harvard and insists that he loves...
...waiting on Harvard’s new male scout team—6’7 Zach Putchel ’05-’07.Puchtel, the former Crimson tight end turned University of Minnesota basketball starting forward, leads a band of former Harvard JV—or Gopher varsity—team members to serve a new purpose: become the most vaunted scout team Harvard women’s hoops has ever seen.The unit includes freshman forward Alex Ahmed, fellow first year Dave Boswell, and senior big man Jacob Mays to compliment Puchtel. The challenge this squad of athletic...
...first one to admit that I didn’t expect that he’d be able to play basketball in the Big Ten,” Crimson football head coach Tim Murphy says. “I maybe caught five minutes of a Minnesota Gopher game, and I sent him a note, an e-mail congratulations, after he’d been in Sports Illustrated, and I said, ‘yeah, you should give football...
...Both page programs trace their roots to 1829, when Senator Daniel Webster appointed a 9-year-old boy to be his personal gopher. Since then thousands of young men - and eventually young women - have come to Washington to run errands for the members of Congress. Like many jobs in Washington, getting hired as a page often means having the right political connections. The work is also grueling, especially during the school year, when pages start class at 6:45 a.m. and can stay on the House or Senate floor late into the night...
Yeah, but how successful was Gopher, really...