Word: sone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each other with furious concentration. The silent S.R.O. crowd in Paris' Pierre de Coubertin Stadium strained to catch the first muscular move. With The Netherlands' hulking (6 ft. 5 in. 238 lbs.) Anton Geesink fighting Japan's smaller (6 ft. 1 in. 198 lbs.) Koji Sone, much more than the judo (literally, "gentle way'') championship of the world was at stake. This was a challenge to Japan's dominance over her own national sport, and it was the ultimate test of one of the oldest traditions of judo: the wistful idea that a well...
...Japanese tactics, they said. The Japanese team had not had enough money to return the "honor." A judo professor at Tokyo's Police University blamed the loss on the manner in which U.S. occupation forces revised Japan's education system. A Tokyo nutrition expert argued that Sone had been weakened by eating Parisian breakfasts of coffee and croissants instead of Japanese dried seaweed, bean-paste soup, hot rice...
Harvard could not clear the puck out of their own sone, and Harold Pettersen took advantage of the sloppy play, scoring from a mixup in front of the Crimson net. Brian Wilkinson and Adams earned assists...
From then on it was all Penn. The Quakers picked up stray Crimson passes and drove through a weak sone to build up a half-time lead...
Though the first period brought no scoring, Brown's "offense" did not give much hope to the smattering of Bruin rooters. Crimson goalie Godfrey Wood had only two saves, one on a Brown clearing attempt, shot from the Bruin's own sone, and the other when a Crimson defenseman almost kicked in the puck...