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Captain Geoff Stiles boosted Harvard's final total to 28 by soaring past all contenders in the pole vault. Despite a pulled hamstring, Stiles cleared 16 ft. before calling it quits.

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Thinclads Finish Fifth at Heptagonals | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Maybe the "training" should be jettisoned also. This isn't a football camp, where sweat and hamstring pulls are the entrees baked by a hot summer sun. Nor is it a basketball camp, where blisters form like a plague, "suicide sprints" aren't just a clever term. Former Boston Celtics...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Diamond Time is Nigh | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

Co-captain Geoff Stiles, returning from a hamstring pull, won the pole vault, clearing the bar at 14 feet. John Chafee notched the only other victory for the Crimson, blazing home in 1:56.3 to take first in the 880-yd. run.

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Princeton Edges Thinclads To Take Big Three Meet | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

B.U.'s Opoku Adu, "the Bush Kangaroo" from Nigeria, dominated the long and triple jump, leaping 23-ft. 12-in. in the former and 49-ft. 3 1/4 in. in the latter. Harvard freshman Bennett Midlo looked strong as he notched second in the long jump. Unfortunately, Midlo might have...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Spirited Trackmen Stomp B.U., 77-59 | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

The Bears do, indeed, forgo the mincing ankle exercise this night. But a visitor also notices that the rest of their pre-game ritual would be more familiar to Mikhail Baryshnikov than Don Meredith Pairing off to use one another's backs as ballet bars, they stretched and flexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: Trying to Make Football Injury-Free | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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