Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard track team has just upset Northeastern to conclude its regular season. Leading the pack of jubilant runners in the customary victory lap, one member--decked out in his usual red sweat suit--suddenly sprints ahead and is the first to cross the finish line. His gait is as smooth and quick as that of those he has left behind: only his grey hair betrays the fact that he is no college student, but a man ready for retirement at the ages...
...score 81-77, the Crimson needed to win the 4x400 relay to clinch the meet Brad Bunney got the squad off -to a good start with a very fast opening leg. Sprinter Jay Hudson took the baton and held onto the 50-yd. lead for most of the lap but just before he handed off. Northeastern's Mark MacKinnon made his move and cut the lead in half. That was as close as the Huskies ever got, though, as Bennet Midlo extended the Crimson lead and Dwayne Jones held on to give Harvard a comfortable...
...relay, the jubilant runners surrounded their mentor and hosted him upon their shoulders chanting, "McCurdy, McCurdy." The coach's grin soon faded once he realized that his charges were leading straight for the steeplecase water jump. After being dumped into the water, McCurdy led the squad in a victory lap as the chanting continued...
...again the key. In the 1500, junior Eric Schuler and freshman Cliff Sheehan finished one-two Schuler. Sheehan and Northeastern's Jeff Childs broke away from the pack at the start of the race and the trio continued to fight for the lead as they started the gun lap...
...infinitum, and clutter thy house with Veritas collectibles from the Coop," is the message that often creeps out from between the lines. And a lot of people buy the whole business, assuming that they have achieved the American dream merely by happing into John Harvard's lap...