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...Dubbed "Melonhead" by his teammates because of one pre-game warmup that involved jumping up and down and hitting his head against the ceiling in the locker room, and, as Olson says, "because he's a little slow," Sheehy doesn't quite see himself as the squad's "big bruiser...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Harvard's Enforcer on the Ice | 3/15/1983 | See Source »

...going to see him at the Clark station on 100th street and I went to Harvard and he pumped gas and it was all so absurd because he was caddy of the year twice and I was just a not-so-close runner-up. We called him melonhead then or just plain 'melon' because his older brother who was in the state funny farm at Vandalia had an outsized head and the name was passed...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Dave Rysky | 12/13/1972 | See Source »

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