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Today is Ricky Nelson's 29th birthday, but many of us are probably so caught up in the exciting race for the Ivy League lacrosse title that we have hardly given any thought to old Rick in the last few days. Rick, however, likes sports almost as much as his...
Harvard's hopes rest a good deal on Cornell. The Big Red, champs last year and runner-up in 1967, has yet to play Princeton and Brown, the two teams who have only lost once. But a parallel with Rick Nelson may be drawn here: Cornell's lacrosse team is...
Thrilling as the fencing and tennis wins were, the lacrosse triumph was probably even more exhilarating. The court-men's upset was, for one thing, accomplished against a team rated as one of the favorites to take the league title.
A quick look at comparative scores ruled the Crimson lacrosse team an over-whelming underdog. Brown and Penn had both downed Harvard, but Priceton had dumped the Bruins, 10-5, and had completely crushed Penn, 12-2. Statistically, there was no way that Harvard could win.
From a spectator point of view, the lacrosse contest was different because lacrosse is a team game, whereas fencing and tennis consist of many individual matches. To watch the exceptional team-work and then the reaction of the reaction of the group as a whole to the crucial goals was...