Word: spenglerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are two cross country meets left for Spengler, the IC4A's Monday and the NCAA's a week later. "I'd like to be in the top five Monday," he said...
Coach Bill McCurdy said early this Fall that Spengler was the first Harvard runner he could remember who had never missed a workout in three years of preseason camp. The team runs arduous double workouts for two or three weeks at its camp. His consistency is further documented by the fact that he has never finished lower than fifth on the team, despite the series of outstanding runners Harvard has had recently...
...When questioned about his reputed toughness. Spengler explains it as an outgrowth of his extreme competitiveness. He was the middle of five boys in his family, and his brother three-and-a-half years older than he matched him against older boys in a variety of sports...
...Arlington High School, Spengler was practically the only serious runner. Most of his track teammates were likely to run a quarter mile as a workout, while he tended to put in perhaps two miles of work. It was a relatively uninspiring experience...
...Perhaps an even more exciting aspect of Spengler's life is his experience with cars. In the last 18 months, he has been in three accidents. The first one was two summers ago when he put his Volkswagen through a 360-degree spin on the Mass Pike before it flipped over. He was not hurt...