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...turnstile, gained 1,522 yards in the first ten games, and is a strong candidate to win the Heisman Trophy. To take advantage of Campbell's brute (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lb.) strength and the sizzling speed of Wide Receiver Johnny ("Lam") Jones-a 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 400-meter relay and, according to Akers, "the fastest football player in the world"-the new coach substituted a big-play, I-formation offense for the Royal Wishbone. When the offense bogs down, there is the estimable leg of Kicker Russell Erxleben to put three points...
Freshman Bobby Hackett, silver medalist in the 1500 meter freestyle at the 1976 Olympics, however, is one member of the swim team who is interested in water polo but did not join the team this year...
...only ray of light for the linksmen was a scintillating three-over par round of 73 by Spence Fitzgibbons, which qualifies him for the ECAC shindig on an individual basis. Fitzgibbons birdied the last hole, but Dartmouth's Joe Henley closed out with an eagle to take medalist honors with a 72. Fitzgibbons hit 14 greens in regulation, his only faux pas coming on the twelfth green, which he four-putted. anything close to their mid-season form...
...tourney medalist was Southern Connecticut's Bill Day, who after blitzing to a five-under par 67 on Sunday, ballooned to an 80 yesterday. Day was tied with Richard Balanger of UMass at 147, but beat him out when he parred the first hole of their playoff and Balanger could do no better than a bogey...
...tourney medalist receives three free lessons from Bob Toski, the renowned teaching pro, who is the most successful of the clan of golfing Toski Brothers. The tourney is held to commemorate their late father. The Crimson linksmen, however, did not come away empty handed. Each member of the team received ten dollars worth of merchandise from the Hickory Ridge golf shop...