Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penn has a potentially fine crew. Two years ago it beat Princeton by more than a length in a rough-water race. Navy, however, has had its troubles this year and is looking for its first victory...
...playoff was almost anticlimactic. Now the 8 to 5 favorite of the bookies, Palmer birdied the very first hole; by the end of the first nine, he was already two strokes up. Rattled, Brewer drove into the rough on the par-five tenth, dubbed his second shot, knocked his third 20 ft. over the green, chipped 12 ft. short of the hole and missed the putt. He wound up with a 73, and Arnie's second straight 69 gave him a four-stroke victory. Gay tried hard to live up to his name as he accepted the second-place...
That was his goal -- the rough equivalent of a four-minute mile, a 17-foot pole vault, or a pitcher's perfect game. Last Saturday at Princeton, he became one of perhaps two dozen men in the world to clear the fabled height. The jump was one of the most prestigious athletic accomplishments in Ivy League history and amazing feat by any standard...
...rough conditions, the first freshman lightweights edged out M.I.T. by two seats...
...seven-over-par. Too bad for General Francisco Franco, 73, who commands quite a few things in Spain, but not the golf courses. As he left the new links at Sotogrande near Gibraltar, Franco asserted himself. The two-hole course on his estate outside Madrid obviously wasn't rough enough, so he sent word to his gardener to find out how the Sotogrande club has come up with such difficult fairways and greens...