Word: slack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea, Olrich said, was "to take up the slack on racing in the fall." In the first Head of the Charles--the first head race in the country--100 boats took part. At first, Olrich said, the Ivy League refused to allow rowers to participate, afraid it would set a dangerous precedent for off-season competition. And so, ever resourceful, Harvard oarsmen formed independent rowing clubs (usually associated with their Houses, Olrich said) to enter boats in the Head. The league's athletic directors relented, and so rowers can now represent Harvard and Radcliffe...
...second game--one which saw a touchdown in the closing moments of each half--Winthrop downed Eliot on quarterback Charlie Slack's eight-yard keeper with only 1:46 playing time remaining in the game. Winthrop successfully made the two-point conversion, and walked away with...
Eliot House, however, opened the game's scoring late in the first quarter by capping off a fifty-yard drive with a Bill Cavanaugh touchdown leap which put the team ahead 6-0. The lead lasted only a short while, as an 18-yard Slack-to-Corky McLeod touchdown pass with no time remaining in the first half tied...
...Slack attributed the win to the Winthrop offensive line's superior performance. "For me, it was just a matter of getting the ball to the receiver. I always had a lot of time to throw...
Three Winthrop stalwarts were injured during the first set of downs, and Slack--who has played one previous year of House ball--added that he was very pleased with the team's ability to rebound from its personnel losses. "This was the best Winthrop game I have been involved...