Word: hofstra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prove at the Coast Guard Wrestling Tournament over the weekend, and they went out and did just that, placing third in a tournament of 18 teams, narrowly losing to the leaders. Harvard finished one-half point behind Columbia, which placed second, and two points behind the tourney winner, Hofstra College of Long Island, with 70 points...
...third-year wrestlers, Andy McNerney and Jim Phills, actually won their respective weight classes, overpowering their opponents in the finals quite easily McNerney, one of the outstanding wrestlers of the whole tournament, dominated Hofstra's Mike Arena, 7-1, in the final of the 134-lb. Weight class. McNerney is rapidly proving that he is one of the top wrestlers in his weight class in the East and will play an instrumental role in Harvard's quest for the Ivy title. Phills achieved his usual impressive performance, handily defeating Tim Connors, 8-2, in the finals of the heavyweight class...
Even though Coast Guard attracts many fine Eastern teams including Columbia, Hofstra, and UMass, other Crimson grapplers should fare quite well. Andy McNerney, the unsung hero of the team, has been training in the offseason, and returns with a number of awards under his belt including a first place finish at the World Game for the Deaf in Cologne, West Germany. Among the other tested wrestlers, Rick Beller looks forward to a strong season, starting with victories at Coast Guard...
...disillusioned about the movement, fell into depression, and turned to drugs. But on a visit to the family of a Viet Nam veteran who had killed himself, he met his future wife, Virginia. "She turned my life around, and gave it meaning and purpose," he says. Muller graduated from Hofstra Law School in 1974, and three years later founded what became the Viet Nam Veterans of America (current membership: 8,000), to lobby for the rights of all those who had served...