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...startling upsets and comebacks, a couple of semi-Cinderella teams stumbled into the 1971 Super Bowl. Both the Baltimore Colts and the Dallas Cowboys have been prime contenders for the championship game since it began in 1967. The Colts reached it once-only to lose; Dallas, despite innumerable preseason predictions that the puissant Cowboys were certain winners, never made it at all. In this Sunday's encounter in Miami, both teams will be less concerned with replenishing their bank accounts (each player on the winning team will receive $15,000) than with banishing their reputations as losers...
Defense, the one preseason uncertainty for Harvard's hockey team, proved to be the decisive factor as the Crimson swept Yale, 6-2, and Clarkson, 2-0, to win the ECAC Holiday Hockey Tournament two weeks ago at Madison Square Garden...
...Koerner was a consistently high finisher his sophomore year and led the Crimson in preseason camp this fall. But soon his right foot began to hurt, and after the first meet he was unable to compete with success and finally stopped entering...
Last year as a freshman, Jauron was the Bulldogs' leading rusher, but the team's 2-4 record was a disappointment for him and the squad. Coming into preseason practice this year, he was not sure how much he would get to play, and he doubted seriously that he would start...
Coach Bill McCurdy said early this Fall that Spengler was the first Harvard runner he could remember who had never missed a workout in three years of preseason camp. The team runs arduous double workouts for two or three weeks at its camp. His consistency is further documented by the fact that he has never finished lower than fifth on the team, despite the series of outstanding runners Harvard has had recently...