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...yesterday's Harvard-Brown game, disc devotees exhibited the passing and blocking skills necessary to make the game move. Players utilize wrist-flip, overhead, side-arm and traditional cross-body passes on offense...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: H-R Frisbee Flingers Unite | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...Crimson team moved off to an early 5-2 lead in the opening minutes of yesterday's game, with platter-flinger Wolfe Futscher displaying finely-honed overhead passes to connect for two long, leading goals...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: H-R Frisbee Flingers Unite | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...goals and scoring points--even in hockey the fighting is incidental. But professional wrestling is the thing itself: unalloyed physical violence. A dispassionate observer could point out that in wrestling no one ever gets more than a few bruises, that the body slams, the flying drop kicks, and the overhead airplane spins are al carefully planned and rehearsed. But in the crowed at the chain match, even the dispassionate observers were eagerly subsumed into a seething mob wanting savagely to believe that the pain and blood were real...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: The Great Russian Chain Match | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...fans, in fact, were so shocked by what transpired on Tuesday night that they just sat glued to their seats for a good ten minutes after the game, staring aimlessly at the overhead scoreboard. Harvard 4, UNH 3, and no more hockey until next November...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: A Moment of Silence | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

...somewhat surprising that Watson's roof really didn't fall down, since everything else in the ancient rink was breaking during the course of the game. Harvard's special Depression-model scoreboard was trotted out of mothballs at the start of the second period when the more modern overhead board ceased to function, and one of the glass boards behind the Crimson goal cracked under the pressure of the third period, necessitating another punctuation of action...

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: Crimson, Tigers Split Weekend Games | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

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