Word: ohiri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ohiri's play was tremendous to watch. He dribbled, passed, and most important, shot like the Olympian that he was. Coach Munro says it was like a man playing with boys. No one could touch...
During the three years that Ohiri led the soccer team he broke every record that Harvard soccer had. While still a junior, he broke the Harvard all-time career scoring record and was named to the All-American team. He led the Ivy League scoring all three years, in each case with season totals higher then the previous Harvard season record...
...things that Ohiri could do were amazing. He once told a sports writer, "I think I've scored as many goals with my left foot as with my right. In the first few minutes of a game I test the goalkeeper by kicking a few easy ones. If he dives well to his right, I'll use my left foot. If he dives well to his left--which is rare--I'll use my right foot...
...Ohiri is as much a hero in track as in soccer. In the few meets that he wasn't injured, he managed to set a Harvard and IC4A record in the triple jump...
...only freshman on the 1960 combined Harvard-Yale track team against Oxford and Cambridge, he out-jumped the former Harvard track captain who was leading the British, in what he later described as the greatest thrill of his Harvard career. After his first two games Ohiri was never in full form again. Munro says in retrospect, "The thing that I always think about is that after those initial two games, I never saw him healthy...