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...glance at the freshmen football team in practice is enough to convince you the talent is not equally distributed. There are 20 guys Harvard really wants to play--you know, the ones whose names are on the starting roster in mid-August. And there are 80 guys, clawing, groping vainly for some coach to nod their way. They show that aimless hustle--the hustle of an athlete who's wearing the yellow, green or most likely shredded red jersey, emblematic of those fifth or sixth strings to which they must cling...
...strange combination of final-cut deadlines and roster limits which brought Stoeckel back to his part-time job of aiding freshman Coach Chet O'Neil's young quarterbacks, while working daily at an Arlington sporting goods firm...
...must wonder how long Stoeckel can keep up with this tenuous tie to the pigskin. How he can wait out the endless winter months in search of a fleeting spot on a 32-man roster. But until you see him cheering as chalkboard dream unfolds into a T.D. or smiling as the defensive unit mows down an illfated sweep, you can't chide him when he says "For me right now football is the thing that means the most, in my life. I've just go to give it another shot...
...quick look at the Harvard football roster will tell you that there are quite a few sophomores on the squad this year...
...Angeles used what must be about the best farm system in baseball to load its lineup with powerful young sluggers and provide an excellent pitching staff that won more than 100 games this year. The LA starting lineup reads like an All-Star roster for the year 1974. Steve Garvey batted .312 as he collected 200 hits and 21 home runs. Jim Wynn led the team in homers (32) and helped power the Dodgers to the NL pennant. Bill Russell, the write-in All-Star at short, and Davey Lopes carried the big bats for LA down the stretch...