Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard heavyweight crew team Saturday finished fifth in the final race of the San Diego Crew Classic. The University of California at Berkeley won the coveted Copley Cup with a final time of 5:59.4 in the 2000-meter race...
...never thought I'd wrestle a guy from Haaavard in the quarter-finals of the National Collegiate Wrestling Championships," said Oklahoma's Steve Williams after winning a hard-fought battle, 8-3, over Harvard heavyweight Jim Phills last week in the national quarter-finals in Ames, lows Williams, the 298-lb, first-string tackle for the Sooner football team--nicknamed "Dr Death" for the way that the handles opponents--finished second in the tourney, while Phills went home empty-handed after losing 9-3 to the eventual third-place finisher, Wayne Coles from lowa...
...extent, the tennis fan can sympathize with the world's heavyweight champion and understand how he might feel spurned, even betrayed. But when the 24-year-old Swede made his decision to take an extended sideline break--as many all-time greats such as Rod Laver, John Newcombe, and Chris Evert have done in the past--he fully understood the impersonal procedures of computer rankings and tournament seedings. Agonizing over his postponement to re-enter the ranks only frustrates his ice-man resolve, making a long-awaited comeback less likely...
...produced some of the biggest athletic superstars in Harvard history, but their senior spring could best be called "That Championship Team" Season. The baseball, tennis, lacrosse and track teams all captured Greater Boston. Ivy or Eastern League titles, while golf turned in a winning record and the heavyweight crew looked like Olympic material. Depth proved essential as the Crimson won an unprecedented 79 per cent of games, meets and races...
Despite being perhaps the smallest heavyweight in the field. Phills is the tournament pin leader with two falls in a total of 2.30. He had had six small problems at the Eastern Championships when he wrestled tentatively, instead of attacking, but at the nationals has already barrelled into the quarter finals with two wins...