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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Northeastern is flexible. Ay, there's the rub. With the kind of versatility the Huskie runners show, it's anybody's guess where these people are going to pop up on Saturday. There's Mark Lech, the All-American runner who placed fourth in a middle-distance event in last year's Nationals. Lech can run well in any middle distance event and usually has--especially in the half-mile and the 600 yard run. Then there's the distance team of Flora-Bickford-Flora, which has been busy quashing Crimson hopes for a first place victory in the GBCs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Team to Beat | 1/13/1978 | See Source »

When the much improved, highly-touted Elis invaded Cambridge for the rematch last spring, Orschiedt's emotion-crazed charges buried them somewhere in the rusty drains of the soon-topbe obscelescent IAB pool, 87-26. The Crimson then returned the next week at the Easterns to rub it in, finishing second only to untouchable Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Forgotten Man | 1/10/1978 | See Source »

...apologist," he complains. Madigan also likes to give his colleagues a taste of the same medicine they administer to city hall. "Newsmen tear everyone else apart, but they can't stand criticism themselves," says Madigan, who mails transcripts of his broadcasts to leading Chicago journalists. "I want to rub their noses in it." In a mere 12½ minutes a week, he certainly does that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Second City Scold | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...does take somewhat of a visionary to imagine the IAB overflowing at the portals with frenzied fans but McLaughlin believes the enthusiasm of his team will rub off on the student body. "It starts with our attitude," he says, "then its up to the students. We're not going to win every night but we'll play 100 per cent. Harvard wants to win just as bad as Princeton. We have to prove to other people that the students are supporting us. If you have the students supporting you in your own place anything can happen...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: McLaughlin Debuts Revamped Cagers | 11/29/1977 | See Source »

...throw. Said he: "There's a great deal of difference knowing your guys are better than the other guys. These Rams give a passer confidence as well as time." As for the Rams, they seemed to feel that Joe's swaggering self-confidence was something that might rub off on them, like his aftershave lotion. Said Linebacker Isiah Robertson, who as one of the few bachelors in the club has become Namath's closest teammate: "He knows he's a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rough Start for Freeway Joe | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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