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Iona is one of the smallest schools in Division One but also one of the best in the Northeast. Richie Guerin was the last nationally acclaimed player at the New Rochelle school but this year coach Jimmy Valvano landed 6-ft., 9-in. Jeff Ruland, who was perhaps the most sought after high school big man in the nation...
...strong candidate to win the Heisman Trophy. To take advantage of Campbell's brute (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lb.) strength and the sizzling speed of Wide Receiver Johnny ("Lam") Jones-a 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 400-meter relay and, according to Akers, "the fastest football player in the world"-the new coach substituted a big-play, I-formation offense for the Royal Wishbone. When the offense bogs down, there is the estimable leg of Kicker Russell Erxleben to put three points on the scoreboard. Erxleben set an N.C.A.A. field-goal record early this season with...
...MENCKEN would have enjoyed No Big Deal: certainly in the strangled locutions of Fidrych he would have had dozens of entries for his Dictionary of the American Language. Tom Clark spent five days interviewing Fidrych and the product is this engaging, somewhat sophomoric account of the player's short career. Clark organized the narrative with some witty captions, which are an incongruously deadpan contrast to Fidrych's fractured lingo...
Tender, sensitive and deep, Elgin is repulsed by his college friends and their flippant attitude towards love and sex. Convinced that debasing bed-hopping is not the only alternative, the handsome soccer player turns down myriad opportunities to jump beneath the covers with sexy partners in order to save himself for something of a purer, more aesthetic...
Rookie Murray exhibited intense poise and anticipation in his second game ever as a Harvard hockey player. The Needham native notched three assists on the evening. He assisted George Hughes with a perfect backhand pass from the right corner, earning his first point of the season. Hughes was all alone in front of the Catamount cage. In the third period Murray slipped the puck by two UVM defenders to send Purdy all alone on net for Harvard's sixth goal. The freshman took a number of tough hits, but never backed down in the contest. His speed and passing ability...