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...success of the Crimson this Fall can be summed up in one word--sophomores. Harvard lost 32 lettermen from last year's squad, including the entire starting offensive backfield, and Restic must find bodies to fill the vacancies left by graduation. Last Fall's freshman team, a team which compiled a 4-2 record, is the only place the Crimson coach has to look...
Kevin Hampe, the first Crimson athlete in 13 years to captain two non-related varsities, won Harvard's highest athletic honor, the William J. Bingham Award for "integrity, courage, leadership and ability," Monday night at the Annual Senior Lettermen's Dinner...
...Gambril] really put the air back in the balloon," Essick said yesterday of the Harvard swimming program. "And I think that with the returning lettermen and the really quality freshmen coming next year, we definitely have the potential to compete on a national level...
...Burke at 76, Quinn Smith at 77 and Tom Yellin at 79 rounded out the Crimson's top five. Returning lettermen John Stoviak and Bill Falatich had off days and finished at 82 and 83, respectively...
Jurisdictional friction became open warfare in the early 1960s, when the N.C.A.A. created a handful of puppet federations in a blatant attempt to encroach on the A.A.U.'s fuzzily defined domain. The N.C.A.A.'s rationale is that the A.A.U. consists of a bunch of doddering old lettermen who are too inept to cope with modern, big-time athletic events. Many in the A.A.U. answer that the salaried coaches and athletic directors of the N.C.A.A. corrupt their youthful charges by paying them off with scholarships and dubious "fringe benefits...