Word: packed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to lace it, and couldn't. My fingers wouldn't respond, wouldn't work, could barely bend. I wanted to panic, to sit down and cry. Instead, somehow I balled the lace up and knotted it loosely, then shoved my hands under the pack straps and beneath the vest. Hopefully they would warm up, while I was losing feeling in my feet...
...didn't go the logical, dangerous route. Instead I went for the deepest, slowest moving pool, made it to narrower braids of raging water. I then managed to throw my pack on a rock, which proved difficult but no more of an impasse than the stream had been once I realized that the rock was the last obstacle before solid land. The hardest part was over, or so I thought...
Thus began a flip-flop career as John caught one pass on the varsity as a sophomore. His junior year he was back at safety and eventually started against Penn and Yale. He was working out over the summer to pack on some extra weight in order to play safety this year when Restic called him at home in California to tell him about the Big Switch. At this point, quips Scott, "yeah, you were sipping a Tequila Sunrise at the beach when you got the call...
...first mile, Dillon and Treacy were running together in front of the pack, while the Crimson had four harriers in the third position (Meyer, Sheehan, Fitzsimmons and Murphy). However, by the time the leaders reached the two-mile mark, the Crimson had gotten into some hot water...
...that difficult second mile Murphy had "run into some insurmountable problems" and dropped way back of the leaders, coach Bill McCurdy said after the race. Murphy explained after the race that he had stiffened up and then tried to catch up with the pack too quickly...