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...Okerman said he doesn't believe Harvard lacks the money to back the team. "If we had a better team, we would have gone. The money could have, and should have, been found. What it really boiled down to was that Harvard's qualifying standards were more stringent than the NCAA's qualifying standards," he added...
Without the Athletic Department's permission, even outside financial assistance was out of the question, Okerman said. "They wouldn't even allow our supporters to donate money. We had the support of friends, but not the athletic office...
Crimson Captain Bill Okerman says he is disappointed with the decision. "In the first place, it's discouraging to an athlete when they (the athletic administration) say you can't run in a race. The idea of athletics is to get athletes to compete," Okerman said last night...
...harder to tell an athlete he can't go to a final championship that he's qualified for," Okerman, a senior, said. "That's harder than telling him he's not good enough to qualify to begin with...
Team captain Okerman sees Fitzsimmons as more than just "our best runner." "He was the type of guy who came down every day of the week and worked hard, leading by example," Okerman asserts. "He tried as hard as he could every race, and every practice...