Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavyweight crew, considered one of legendary Coach Harry Parker's best, pulled past Northeastern and Penn at the 1000-meter mark of the Herschede Cup in Cincinnati June 17 to win its third-straight national title and fifth in seven years. Harvard sprinted to a 2.43-second win over the University of Washington, which had also raced past the Huskies and Quakers to finish second. Northeastern finished third, Penn fourth, Wisconsin fifth and UCLA sixth...
Also in Cincinnati, a Harvard boat comprised of four members of the JV heavyweight boat--Donald Fawcett, George Henry, Elliott Smith, Chris Swan and cox Christine Cozadd--won the national four with coxswain title by outlasting a Wisconsin scull...
...muggy Houston morning, George Foreman, the heavyweight boxing champion of 15 years ago, is bundled in a military shirt and heavy work pants, plodding up and down a freeway embankment in the piney woods near his home. Foreman isn't just climbing the steep hill. He is maneuvering up it backward -- up and back, up and back -- a modern-day Sisyphus, sweating and straining in the heavy grass. As he moves, the old fighter hurls jabs and uppercuts at the blazing sun with his prodigious arms...
...might seem, Foreman's goal is even odder. At the age of 40, after a full ten years layoff from the ring and about 40 lbs. over his best fighting weight, the slugger is in training once again. His objective -- some call it an obsession -- is to recapture the heavyweight title he lost by a knockout to Muhammad Ali in 1974. Exclaims the ex-champ: "I'm ready, and I'm better than I ever...
These mismatches keep the adrenaline flowing and the nostalgia and hopes burning for a flock of Foreman camp followers. Archie Moore, who the record books say is 75, was light-heavyweight champ until he was at least 48. Now Moore has signed on as resident guru and gerontologist. "Ah, the wisdom and cunning of age," Moore muses. "Make the young man take three steps to your one. Smotin' power, that's what it comes down to. George can still smote, oh yes he can." Moore also knows something about losing weight. Eat all you like, he once suggested, just...