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...Under Hutch I learned that sports weren't just for winning," former JV skater Larry Desmond said. "I started to appreciate the people in hockey along with the game. He (Hutchinson) stood for the tradition of gentlemanliness I thought Harvard would have...
...brightest of all the Olympic stars was a Dutchman: Speed Skater Ard Schenk. Like Jean-Claude Killy, the Gallic glamour boy of the 1968 games, the dashingly handsome Schenk won three gold medals and the unofficial beefcake award. Crowds of more than 40,000 packed the Mako-manai Speed-Skating Rink to see the big (6 ft. 3 in.. 200 Ibs.), blond and blue-eyed Schenk easily overpower his competition at 1.500 and 5,000 meters with his powerfully rhythmic strides. Then, while Dutch fans clopped their wooden shoes and shouted "Heya! Heya! Ard Schenk!" he covered...
...buxom Beatrix Schuba of Austria built up such a commanding lead in the school figures, the technical half of the event, that her competent but dull performance in freestyle skating did not deter her from winning the gold medal on total points. The freest spirit of all was U.S. Skater Janet Lynn. A pixy in pink, the tiny (5 ft. 2 in., 108 Ibs.) teen-ager whirled through her double Salchows and camel spins with grace and a kind of smiling elan, despite a fall, to win the freestyle and a bronze medal overall...
...dedicated competitor who worked as a waitress last year to help finance a three-month training stint in The Netherlands, adds: "I don't mind the sacrifices. An Olympic gold medal is a life's ambition come true." Even so, the demands are such that many young skaters have to drop out of school and study with a tutor. To pay the $1,000 to $2,000 a year that it takes for the care and feeding of a skater, some Northbrook mothers take part-time jobs. Is it worth it? Anne's father, Bill Henning, thinks...
With Harvard a man down less than two minutes later, an unknown sophomore from the JV's, Sandy Milley, converted a pass from another JV skater, Fred Paul, to give the Crimson a 2-0 edge...