Word: players
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard would rate as a slight favorite in the contest, but for one thing--captain and number one singles player Todd Lundy will sit out today and perhaps until the May 3 Yale match, with a mysterious muscle injury along his ribcage. The whole Crimson lineup will shift, with Don Pompan playing one and Bob Horne taking over...
...anything, last weekend's bus jaunt to New York and Philadelphia taught me one thing: you never know as much about the game as you think. The world of the player, at a time when everything is geared toward the game, and when in fact the game becomes a way of life for a weekend, has a special atmosphere not found in a box-score, nor molded in rounds of pepper before a home game...
...protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer was made to raise a pig and a calf for his victim. One judge is even said to have sentenced a naked Frisbee player to plant fig trees in a park...
...folk hero, the stuff of little boys' dreams. Shy and something of a loner, he is to Coach Bowman "a model of a superstar." Adds Bowman: "Guy never lets up, never tries to pull rank. And, for all his talent, he never stops trying to improve." While other players wait in line during shooting drills, Lafleur circles restlessly beside them, honing his turns, devising a new move, or flicking the occasional errant puck toward the goal. Says Teammate Rick Chartraw, the only Venezuelan-born player in the N.H.L.: "Guy even goofs off hard...
...variation on Mae West's old routines. But in the end the bit doesn't mesh with the plot; it is precisely because of her toughness that we fail to be touched her Madame Nell goes crazy after the authorities shut down the brothel. The house's black piano player, played by Antonio Fargas and presumably modeled after Jelly roll Morton, provides the other. Yet his relation to Violet is never made clear. There are a few winking--"come over here, Violet and let me tell you about life"--scenes between the two. But Shields always seems too distracted...