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...reality, there's nothing ecclesiastical at all about the Harvard cross country program, except for the exhausting pre-season training regimen, which is enough to drive even the stoutest soul to desperate prayer...
Irion has not played a minute this season and right now he is hobbling around on crutches following a second operation performed in December by Harvard's chief surgeon, Dr. Arthur Boland. "I knew in pre-season that my knee wasn't as good as it should be, but I was hoping to play at about 80 per cent and I intended to play," said Irion. "Just the idea of playing for the new coach and the new program was enough motivation for me to go out there...
Irion participated in three pre-season scrimmages but his knee quickly puffed up. Boland administered a dye test on the knee and decided it was necessary for Steve to undergo an operation known as a "lateral mackintosh." Irion had severed the cruciate ligament which holds the knee cap in place and it had literally dissolved. In a delicate three-hour operation, Boland drilled a pair of small holes in Irion's knee which he threaded with a tendon from a leg muscle so as to reconstruct the missing ligament...
...slate. With 6-ft. 11-in., 235-lb. sophomore Roosevelt Bouie manning the pivot post accompanied by frontliners Louis Orr and pencil-thin Dale Shackleford, Jim Boheim's charges look to be the best in the East and are ranked seventh in the nation in "Sports Illustrated's" pre-season poll...
...without excitement. Witness the contest down in Providence between Brown and Princeton. The Bruins, pre-season bigwigs in every poll, had to scramble and claw their way to their first Ivy victory of the season, a 10-7 nudging of the Tigers...