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Harvard Director of Athletics John P. Reardon Jr. '60 is responsible for monitoring the eligibility of all varsity athletes. Judge, upon examining the NCAA handbook, absolved Reardon and all of the athletic administration of any responsibility, citing the absolute obscurity...
Harvard Director of Athletics John P. Reardon '60 could not be reached for comment and the rest of the department yesterday refused comment...
...Both Reardon and Fiering also cited the importance of remembering last year's incident, where Margaret M. Cimino suffered a fractured skull and severe neurological damage when the goalposts fell on her during the post-game celebration at the Yale Bowl...
...hope this is a year when very few people don't remember what happened last year and that storming the field won't happen," Reardon said. "Chances of that happening this year are less than it will be in the future, but as years go by and people graduate and forget what happened, you can't tell what will happen...
...Installing wooden goalposts for games where field-storming is expected. But when wood is torn down, it breaks into flying, jagged pieces, causing eye injuries to bystanders, Reardon said. Being struck by a wooden goalpost, Reardon said, would also probably cause as much damage as the aluminum post which left Cimino partially paralyzed on her right side...