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...andy Matson...
Prospect of Gold. The bait that lured Long back into competition this season, of course, is the prospect of a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics. He will not lack for competition in Tokyo. Randy Matson, a 19-year-old Texas A. & M. freshman, already has a 64 ft. 10½ in. throw to his credit this spring. But by the time the Olympics roll around, Long may be hurling that 16-lb. ball all the way into orbit. "I've always felt that somebody would hit 70 ft. some day," he says...
This kind of obnoxious writing might be tolerable if the author were a tongue-tied genius. But, in the end, the reader must conclude that Matson is merely inarticulate. He has grappled with the problem of man's image of himself and has taken 355 pages to demonstrate that he has nothing to say on the subject. Students will be famil-far with such lifeless tomes...
...Engineers' Wayne Matson--the leader scorer in Tech history--cut the lead to 8-6 with his third goal as the final period began. But M.I.T. was weary, and they threatened no more. Led by Lou Williams, the Crimson scored four more goals in the final minutes of play...
Harvard dominated play for the first four minutes of the game as the Tech defense could not clear the ball. Wood and Gunnoe each scored an unassisted goal but the Engineers began to function, and Matson scored twice to even the score. Ames tallied perhaps the prettiest goal of the game after a long run at 11:40, but came up limping. Tech's Bob Beardsley tied it seconds later, and then Mandle gave M.I.T. its short-lived lead...