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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After sleepily walking over its first six flimsy opponents, the Harvard swim team must waken this weekend for the real challenge--its only one of the dual meet season--The Showdown at Princeton...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Crimson Squads Resume Action This Weekend | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

Both teams have improved significantly over last season. Coach Joe Bernal's Crimson, aware of the incredible depth that has brought the Tigers six straight Eastern crowns, has fortified its strengths (distance freestyle, individual medley) with the addition of freshmen high school all-Americans Tim Maximoff and Jack Gauthier. Harvard's second year mentor also made up for the loss of last year's standout captain Duncan Pyle by lassoeing national-caliber backstroker Ron Raikula for inclusion in Harvard's historic "Back Pack...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Crimson Squads Resume Action This Weekend | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...players. Mahar must have reached the same conclusion because he decided to crack down. He benched Byrd, Davie Fields and Free who had started every game for the last three years, for the first 11:49 of the Yale game. The trio was benched because they had been six minutes late to a team meeting earlier...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Lion and the Thorn | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

Princeton has won the Cup six out of its seven years, and is predictably favored again this weekend...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Racqueteers Set for Weekend Matches | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...didn't even shut off the motor, much less allow it to cool off. Impatiently, he told me to hold the funnel as he poured the diesel into the tank. I did so with much trepidation, half-expecting the diesel to splash onto the red hot exhaust pipe six inches away, blowing up all to kingdom come at any moment. I really grew panicky when Gilles switched his lit cigarette from his right hand to his mouth. Even that I could live with until he leaned over to peer down into the tank to see if it was full...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

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