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Harvard football coach Joe Restic will serve as an assistant coach for the East team in the 38th annual Hula Bowl All-Star classic on January 7, 1984 in Honolulu at the Aloha Stadium...
They are the Crimson's crown prince and clown prince. Fasi--the all-time leading scorer in Harvard history--is the star. Heavily recruited out of high school in Honolulu and good enough to start for any team in the country, he is the man the Crimson looks to when it wants to put the ball...
...When I was thinking of schools in my senior year," says Fasi, "I thought of Stanford water polo and Brown water polo. Harvard water polo was a contradiction in terms." Despite a personal visit (by the Stanford coach) to see him play in his home of Honolulu, Fasi chose Cambridge and contemplated retirement from the sport...
Obvious to onlookers on the Honolulu hills was the fact that Pearl Harbor was being hit hard. From the Navy's plane base on Ford Island (also known as Luke Field), in the middle of the harbor, clouds of smoke ascended. One citizen who was driving past the naval base saw the first bomb fall on Ford Island...
When the first ghastly day was over, Honolulu began to reckon up the score. It was one to make the U.S. Navy and Army shudder. Of the 200,000 inhabitants of Oahu, 1,500 were dead, 1,500 others injured. Washington called the naval damage "serious," admitted at least one "old" battleship and a destroyer had been sunk, other ships damaged at base. Meanwhile Japan took to the radio to boast that the U.S. had suffered an "annihilating blow...