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...Hollywood. Playing the role of favorite to perfection, the Bulldogs seemed to have it all—an untarnished 8-0 record and 16-game winning streak, a national top 20 ranking, and star quarterback Brian Dowling, who hadn’t lost a game since the seventh grade and had been affectionately nicknamed by the Yale faithful as “God.”Falling behind by 22 points in the second quarter, Harvard was overwhelmed for much of the contest. Bringing in backup quarterback Frank K. Champi ’70 near the end of the first...
...coach really tried to have me play [football] in middle school and ninth grade,” Ajayi says. “Finally, sophomore year I caved and really started playing, trying out for the team and playing some football...
...Growing up a self-proclaimed “basketball guy,” Ajayi played one year of Pop Warner football in the fifth grade, hanging up his cleats after just one season...
...class of 2008. Just as marathon runners can ask friends and family to pledge money toward a race bid, GradeFund allows students to invite family members, friends, doctors, coaches, and other community members to pledge money towards their education. Donors can calibrate their pledges to reward students for better grades. Students upload their school transcripts directly onto the Web site, and if they indicate good marks over the course of a semester, Gradefund collects sponsors’ money and sends it to the student’s school. Donors can also support specific “causes...
...filling Hyde Park, tears sprang to my eyes and only one thought entered my head: “It should have been me.” I began my own campaign for U.S. president at the tender age of nine, when I ran for class representative of the fourth grade at Adler Park Elementary School. Winning would propel me onto the student council, the venerable body that met once a month to discuss the important issues—the rising prices of chocolate milk, the construction of a new swing set and the planning of the Adler family carnival...