Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton came within an eyelash of winning the Heps (at which Harvard and Navy tied for first). The Tigers' group running in the meet kept them in winning position until Chris Elliott, Princeton's number one runner last year, cramped up and had to drop out. Had he held position the final score could have given Princeton a one-point triumph over the Crimson and Navy...
...National League by the Baseball Writers Association, Bench battle 270 and led the league in home runs with 40, and runs batted in with 125 as the helped guide the Reds to the NL pennant last season. The hard-hitting catcher polled 263 points, 52 more than runner-up Billy Williams of Chicago...
Roberts, Kearns and other members of the seminar went to Washington in December 1970 at the expense of Senator Edmund S. Muskie (d-Maine). then front-runner for the Democratic nomination. They tried to sell Muskie on their issue-oriented approach. Roberts remembers that some of the younger Muskie staffers were sympathetic, but that older politicians in the room-confident that front-runners didn't need issues--weren't buying. So despite an invitation from Muskie's administrative assistant, Don Nicholls, to produce a serious draft of their campaign strategy, the Harvard group returned to Cambridge still looking...
...Dodgers to the 1947 pennant with a team-high batting average of .297. He quieted his critics with a display of clutch hitting, bunting, slick fielding and flashy base running that won him Rookie-of-the-Year honors. In one poll at season's end, he was runner-up to Bing Crosby as the most popular man in America. Though his batting average* through ten seasons with the Dodgers was a formidable .311, Robinson is perhaps best remembered for his daring, pigeon-toed base running. The consummate artful Dodger, his long, dancing leads and false breaks on the base...
Rick Rotas Harvard's premier cross country runner and the Crimson to a tie with Navy for the Heptagonal Championships at Van Courtland Park in New York City yesterday...