Word: pottetti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCurdy's handling of Pottetti was superb when he was on the team. He recognized Pottetti's dislike of competitive team practices and allowed him to take care of his own conditioning by running...
This perception makes McCurdy unique, and it's unlikely that Pottetti would have lasted as long as he did with any other coach. "[Penn's Jim] Tuppeny would probably have forced me to run with a shotgun," Pottetti joked...
...fact, when Pottetti was one of the nation's top high school runners. Tuppeny, the master recruiter, was placing weekly phone calls to the Pottetti home in Pound Ridge, N. Y. "He came to visit me at home and at school, too," Pottetti said...
...also received calls from Marty Liquori, Pottetti's rival in Eastern high school competition. Liquori was at the time planning to go to Penn as part of a great group of distance runners. When Pottetti and others failed to show an interest, Liquori was lured to Villanova, where he became the world's top miler...
...Pottetti, meanwhile, had set the national schoolboy record in the steeplechase and looked forward to the 1972 Olympics. It was a reasonable goal. "I'd take a trip just to watch him run," said Howie Foye, a Harvard harrier who attended a high school further upstate. "He was a legend up North...