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...champagne? That's why the midnight stroke of 1980 was also the signal for 1,648 runners to sprint away on an 8-km race through New York City's Central Park. Not surprisingly, the leader who cut the floodlit tape in 23 min. IS sec. was Speedster Bill Rodgers, who has won his home town's Boston Marathon three times and the five-borough New York Marathon four. Said he: "If you've got 1,600 people running with you, it's a real good time...
Paula Newnham placed third in the 880 at the Dartmouth Relays in Hanover, N.H., Sunday with a time of 2:10.1, behind Canadian speedster Francine Gendron (2:08.4) and Georgetown's Chris Mullen...
Despite dizziness and constant headaches which plagued him for three months, the talented speedster wasted no time moping around, returning almost immediately to the football program as receiver coach for the freshman squad...
Yale, moving cautiously deep into Harvard territory, faultered when n speedster back Ken Hill lost a Dennis Dunn pitchout and had to smother the loose ball at the Harvard 30. Dave Schwartz's 47-yd. field goal barely reached the goal line, dropping well short of the crossbar...
...such modesty merely adds charm to the center of an offensive powerhouse that includes co-captain Julie Brynteson, speedster Ellen Hart and explosive Cat Ferrante. Her humility disarms any jealousy you could have for the player whose scoring potency has made her a media attraction, the Ivy woman athlete of the week in mid-October, and the lucky attacker who'll go down in the record books as having scored both goals in Harvard's historic 2-0 shutout of Brown in the fourth game of the 1978 season...