Word: pickett
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Never in the 15 years since Bob Pickett became wrestling coach at Harvard has a Crimson mat squad beaten Cornell. In fact, the Big Red has lost only two Ivy League dual meets since the League was founded, and none in the last four years...
This year things might be different. "We could win," Pickett says. "I admit we could get clobbered too, but we have a chance to beat them...
That's saying something. For one thing, the match is at Ithaca, which Pickett figures is worth "five or ten points" to Cornell. Then too, it's the first meet for the Crimson since before Christmas vacation. (Pickett is confident, however, that his squad stayed in good shape over the holidays...
...Jack Mamana (0-1) faces the Big Red's sophomore star DeWitt Burlingame (2-0-1). The 167 bout is another key one, as Crimson captain Fred Pereira (2-0 and second in the tournament) faces Jeff Stephens (2-1), who impressed Pickett as a freshman last year. Stephens' only defeat this year came at the hands of Peter Carey of Navy, who also beat Pereira in the tournament...
Coach Bob Pickett is counting on captain Fred Pereira at 167, Pereira same in second in the tournament, the highest finish by a Crimson wrestler. Almost as high were sophomore 137-pounder Howard Durfee, who took third place, and Peter Keeler (123) who finished fourth among the lightweights...