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...freestyles) to the freshmen and the relays, an improvement on last year's 13th place seems possible if not likely. Asked about top-ten possibilities, Bernal chuckles and blurts, "I'm an optimistic guy but that's a very enthusiastic goal," But he knows the potential of home-team crowds, national television and adrenaline surging through Harvard swimmers like an electric shock through Blodgett's current. Bernal allows: "I don't think it's impossible." And you can almost feel him smile. Harvard Qualifiers Name Event Bobby Hackett 200, 500, 1650 Free David Lundberg 200 Breast...
Live Lobsters. He had been running ball clubs since the 1930s, building, inventing, promoting, hustling in unpretentious, wholly individualistic ways. He devised a moveable fence in Milwaukee, which helped home-team hitters, and he put fireworks in the Cleveland Scoreboard to salute home-team home runs. He sent a midget to bat in St. Louis, and offered live lobsters as gate prizes to his fans. Critics said he turned baseball into a circus. Replied Veeck: Was there anything wrong with the circus...
...Home-team sympathies resigned supreme last Thursday as 40 Harvard and Radcliffe athletes signed a letter urging the administration to appoint one of two well-known Harvard administrators as director of athletics to succeed Robert B. Watson...
...just when Harvard seemed to have its third straight victory in the bag, the Quakers caught fire. Jamie Hodge treated the crowd to the first home-team goal of the evening while his defensive cohorts were shutting down the Harvard attack. Penn goalie Carl Jackson left the ice with an injury midway through the second frame, and sub Jim Nista skated on to stymie the Crimson the rest...
...There's nothing mysterious about setting the line," Martin insists. During the regular season, when spreads are selected for the 13 games each weekend, Martin watches games on TV, consults the U.P.I, sports wire at Churchill Downs for news of injuries, and reads newspapers flown in from N.F.L. home-team cities...