Word: medals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needs the glove of an all-star shortstop, the agility of a gold-medal gymnast, the reflexes of a championship racing-car driver, the eye of a .400 hitter and the mind of a geometrician. Even then he is nothing if he has not conquered fear, for he lives in a vortex of violence in the world's fastest team sport. He is the hockey goalie, the masked man, the magnet for action...
...Olympic record is 7 ft. 4 1/4 in. and Stones has been talking about winning the gold medal by at least four inches over the competition. Embree has been a bit more realistic and not quite as brash about...
...that many people doubted him. Stones also holds the outdoor record ft. 6 1/2 in. in Munich, July 11, 1973 for the high jump. He owns a bronze medal from the 1972 Olympics and is favored to take the gold next year. He has won every meet he has entered this year except for one, the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden January 31, when his leap of 7 ft. 2 in wasn't good enought to take another first...
...Gold Medal. Armed with a sizable travel budget and the inducement of 19 wrestling scholarships, O.S.U. Coach Tommy Chesbro has recruited in schools from Virginia to California. Last year he ended up with four of the nation's ten best high school wrestlers. Chesbro, once a State mat star, does not limit his scouting to the U.S. Two former O.S.U. grapplers now living in Japan keep him posted on blue-chip prospects there. For good reason: probably the finest wrestler in Oklahoma State's history was Yojiro Uetake, a two-time Olympic gold-medal winner for Japan...
Dick Cashin, playing in the number three spot, faced an Engineer he rated as "something less than excellent" The 6 ft. 4 in. Cashin, also a member of last summer's gold-medal winning U.S. heavyweight crew, defeated MIT's somewhat smaller Paul Menig with hard, straight and criss-cross serves which Menig was unable to master. Cashin dominated the center court, forcing the Engineer to run, not dally-dally, to his doom...