Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brothers, who grew up so close to Harvard that they had to move every time the school expanded, later went on to establish the most remarkable athletic dynasty in Harvard's hockey history...
During the years 1954-58 that either William J. Cleary Jr. '56 or Robert B. Cleary '58 was a member of the varsity hockey squad, Harvard won five consecutive Ivy League titles. In addition, the Cleary brothers captured every individual hockey honor imaginable, from NCAA scoring records to spots on the 1960 Olympic-winning hockey team...
Bill and Bob Cleary began their hockey careers early. Their father, a linesman in the National Hockey League for 20 years, encouraged them to take up the sport before they were five years old. Because there was no pee-wee league competition then, Mr. Cleary taught his sons the fundamentals of the game on iced-over ponds during their elementary educatioi at Shady Hill School, Neither brother played on a hockey team until tenth grade at Belmont Hill High School, where they both made all-New England prep school honors before moving on to Harvard...
Although he played only the last half of the 1953-54 season, Bill was instrumental in the hockey team's success as the Crimson swept to a 5-1-2 Ivy record and the League crown. But his sophomore year was only a forshadowing of a performance the following season that stands unequaled in college hockey...
...hours without committing adultery. His wife is Actress Caterina Largo, who possesses, among other things, "a behind stuffed with the golden fleece of erotic dreams for the Mediterranean peoples," and shoulders so flawless that they "reminded Swedish men of winter nights in boarding schools, and English women of golden hockey captains." Their director, Albert McCobb, is a grotesque gourmand who is devoted to Roquefort cheese but spurns Danish blue because it is "non-ewe." McCobb may remind some readers of Alfred Hitchcock-just as an actor named Chuck Moses may be reminiscent of Charlton Heston. But the similarity is coincidental...