Word: indoor
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Since the club is not entitled to practice in the Indoor Athletic Building. It scrimmages twice a week at the M.I.T. pool. Six dual matches are scheduled this spring along with the Eastern Tournament at West Point...
When you watch Chris Paradee sail over a crossbar at 6 ft., 10 in., or Jim Baker pound out two miles in 9:05.5, it all looks so easy. But the team's victories have been especially difficult this year. As the indoor season opened it found itself without some of its best runners, and with lots of its best runners, and with lots of promise but no security in the weight events...
Sprinter Sam Robinson, the team's number-one dash man, was out for the season. Sophomore Dave McKelvey couldn't run the 600-yard dash until the Heptagonals, the last meet of the indoor season. And two of the top-distance runners, seniors Dave Alien and Walt Hewlett, were knocked out by a thesis and strained muscles, respectively. The two chief men in the weight events, sophomores Ron Wilson and Carter Lord, were promising but untried...
...resilience has best been demonstrated in tight meet competition, for instance in the indoor Heptagonals March 12. "We pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps in the Heps," said McCurdy. Harvard edged out Army to win that meet 57-56, Harvard's third consecutive Heps victory and the highest point total in the tournament's history. Last year's Harvard varsity won the meet with 49 points. This year's group not only won the meet but also set three University records in the process...
Weight man Ron Wilson hasn't smashed any records so far, but 'he could be as good as any man we've ever had," says McCurdy. He threw the 35 pound weight and put the shot during the indoor season, and he'll throw the 16-pound weight, the discus, and the shot this spring...