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Nevertheless, it's easy for someone like Potysman to get lost in the gridiron shuffle. In a world of walking skyscrapers, Steve plays the part of the condominium. He stands only 5-ft. 10-in. tall and jiggles the scales...
...basis of a priority system worked out by the Faculty Standing Committe on Athletics. There are 13 gradations of priority with top administrators getting the choicest seats, followed by the standing committee, current and former varsity players, undergraduates, alumni, and graduate students. Every football letterman in Harvard gridiron history receives four complementary tickets for The Game...
...they call "The Beast" was describing how Harvard "mellows outs a player." It seems the Ivy League's gentlemanly spirit, so manifest at the tailgates, carries over into the gridiron, where players who were genuine sickies in high school are now helping each other off pile...
...Folks remember him as not as strong and bullish as his brother Darwin McNatt, whose fatigue jacket he always wears--Darwin, the boy who hung up his pads to join the army, and came back from Nam a little wacky. But when Hobie is cutting and stepping on the gridiron people scratch their heads and wonder when it was they ever saw a white boy run so fast. Not at all like his daddy, Hunter, a quiet fellow who works the evening shift down in the black shaft of mine No. 7--Hunter who lost his wife a few years...
This never used to be a big game. In fact, from 1960 to 1973 this never used to be much a game at all. Fourteen times Harvard and Brown squared off on the gridiron during that span, and on 13 of those occasions the Crimson triumphed...