Word: runners
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Sophomore Dave Pottetti led the Harvard effort yesterday, as he surged to the front of the large field early and held his position over the six-mile Van Cortlandt Park course to cop 23rd place. Pottetti thus became the second runner in Harvard history to gain All-American recognition, awarded to the top 25 finishers in the National Collegiate meet...
...Strong Runner...
...perhaps in the country. Dowling, a 6'2" senior, has not lost a game he has played at Yale. His freshman team was undefeated, he missed sophomore year with an injury, and last year's team's only loss came when he was out with another injury. A strong runner and passer, he holds seven Yale records, one Ivy record (most touchdown passes, career) and has been named the Ivy's outstanding back on four of the 12 weeks of his career...
...impressive passer nor a particularly outstanding runner. And his play selection is sometimes suspect. He is currently being billed as an 'All-American candidate.' His campaign platform is simple: He's a winner." -- Dick...
...Brain Dowling's undefeated record (in games he has finished) since seventh grade or something. Carmen Cozza, the Yale coach, has said that Dowling is neither a great passer nor a great runner, he is just "a born winner." That is a disgusting prospect. We all know there is no such thing as a born winner or a born anything else. Winners are made and not born (like Wheaties) and to suppose that Dowling was born to win is strikingly un-American...