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...Americans 5-5 but won the championship because they had outscored their opponents by a wider margin. The U.S. silver was only the country's third medal since a pre-Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller led a U.S. team to a bronze in 1924. Said a disappointed Coach Monte Nitzkowski, who had been working with the team for seven years: "Those kids didn't have silver in their eyes. It was gold...
...captain and coach of the six-man side, Roger Martin, who along with Greg Nitzkowski capped a four-year career, said yesterday, "We had to play extremely hard to win, but we dug down deep and went out with a bang...
...Nitzkowski says he declined to pursue his career on the gridiron "because I was disillusioned with the whole football thing in high school. It was a degrading, dehumanizing experience, and I wanted a more low-key experience...
Roger Martin was the co-captain and MVP of his high school basketball team. Ken Argentieri wrestled and played tennis "way back when" for Baldwin High School. And Greg Nitzkowski ran track and played football before he left the sunny skies of Huntington Beach, Calif., for those of Cambridge...
Some team members, like Martin and Tod Tanaka, played on regular varsity teams in high school. Others, such as Argentieri and Nitzkowski, gained experience on beaches and in gym classes...
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