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...time of World War II, Crosby and his perennial sidekick Bob Hope were barnstorming the country on golf exhibitions with professionals such as Byron Nelson and Harold McSpaden. "Lord" Byron, the leading money-winner of 1945, and "Childe" Harold were then known as "The Gold Dust Twins." Crosby teamed up with woman professional and former Olympian Mildred "Babe" Didrickson in a series of War Bond exhibitions on the Coast. By the end of the war, over $600 million worth of War Bonds had been sold through golf tournaments and exhibitions...
...Nelson never thought of quitting. Since he left high school, he had managed to keep in touch with the game and he wasn't going to give...
What has changed between last season and now? Nelson feels that the team is closer. Winning helps, of course, "but we lost our first game this year and didn't let down" he adds. As for Coach Ford, Nelson feels that the coach started this season with a new attitude. "There's really nothing left over from last year," and with newly hired assistant coach Kevin Welch helping out, Ford could start over and do what he wanted...
When it comes to making predictions about the rest of the season, Nelson hesitates again. "I don't want to be the first to say we can make the tournament," he says, and then goes ahead anyway: "I think we have a good shot...
Although he won't tell the whole world, after two years away from Harvard and a frustrating soccer season, Lee Nelson has things pretty well figured out. Ask him what he plans to do with a major in French and he'll tell you, "Go to France, I guess." And he knows that, regardless of what the soccer game program says, he's got at least one more season of Harvard soccer left...