Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jumbos scored all of their runs in the first inning, and Weissant came in with the bases loaded to end the uprising with a strikeout. Weissant picked up where he left off in Saturday's 5-0 win over Penn, and Tufts didn't get a runner past second the rest of the way. In 8-1 3 innings, he allowed only two hits while striking out five...
...foot, 210-pound Williams is last but,' says Wallace, 'not tremendously so. His moves and his strength are what make him a fine runner...
...decision," how I was the hardest offensive back to tackle. This was something I knew all along. I remained a fourth-string defensive end for about two days. Then I finally told Yovicsin that I could no longer comfortably remain there when I knew that I was a better runner than any of the halfbacks he had. Telling him my feelings made him mad. He told me that if I moved back to offense, it would have to be as a fullback. I agreed...
Before the first game of the season against Northeastern, a black reporter, Joe Fisher, a writer for the Baltimore Afro-American, observed a practice session. Afterwards, he came up to me and said that he thought I was "the hardest runner on the team". Later I learned that Fisher, the only black sports reporter covering Harvard football throughout the season, asked Yovicsin in the weekly post-game coaches conference. "Why isn't Sid Williams playing?" After a while Yovicsin would just laugh it off, saying "Williams doesn't know our system" or that "we have so many good backs...
...Engineers, who finished two and a quarter lengths behind undefeated Harvard, took the runner-up position, 8.6 seconds in front of Princeton. The Crimson caught the surprisingly strong MIT eight at about the 500 meter mark and slowly powered its way to a 9.2 second final margin and a wind hindered 6:32.5 time for the 2000 meters...