Word: ohiri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became a little more evident when Ohiri started his Varsity soccer career with five goals in the first game of the season against Tufts, a new Harvard single game scoring record...
...painfully obvious when the very next week, Ohiri repeated his five-goal feat in his Ivy debut against Cornell...
...Chris Ohiri did things that just couldn't be done. Something could be impossible only until he tried it, and then it seemed so natural...
Unfortunately, Harvard could not foresee the future very well. Chris Ohiri died in the fall of 1966 at the age of 26. Death too had seemed impossible for Harvard's greatest soccer hero. But Chris was suddenly struck down on the Business School tennis courts one afternoon by an incurable cancer...
...Ohiri came to Harvard as an already established athlete. He had been Nigerian decathlon champion, inter-collegiate boxing champion, and leader of the National Soccer Team and 1960 Nigerian Olympic Team...