Word: halliday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breaking your foot three times, tearing a tendon in your shoulder, or having calcium deposits in your leg doesn't stop you, not much will. "I always feel good enough to play by the weekend," says Al Halliday the co-captain of the Harvard rugby team, who has endured all these inconveniences and more in his four years of Harvard rugby...
...back in high school in his hometown of Toronto that Halliday played his first game, and he's been playing the same position--second row--ever since. He fits the mold of a second-row rugger well--the biggest player on the Crimson side at 6'5," 235, he has the strength to provide the majority of the push at the center of the Harvard pack, while he also has the height to jump and catch the line outs...
...when he first came to Harvard, Halliday did not run straight to the rugby field behind the stadium. First he tried freshman football, and then crew, before joining his favorite sport...
Explaining his love for the game, Halliday says. "Rugby is such a great team sport because everyone gets to do everything. All 15 men can run with the ball and tackle, and they're in it for the camaraderie and competition, not recognition...
...That had to be the biggest and most exciting sporting event of my life," says Halliday...