Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman sport a number of talented runners, and their depth, according to coach Bob Hunt, should improve as the season progresses and the injured trackmen return to action...
Fencing is a sport in which it is crucial to be able to estimate your opponent's reactions to your moves. Fencers must know their enemies. On Thursday Keller didn't, was surprised, and beaten...
...upsets are traditional in fencing more than in any other sport, and SMTI today or Holy Cross on Saturday will be looking to be spoilers...
...contact sport, the danger of injury is always present. In football, sooner or later, everyone gets hurt-and more often than not, he gets hurt in the knee. Obviously, the football player's knee is crucial. It must function perfectly to permit all the feinting, cutting, spinning, twisting, blocking, running and tackling that are the basic elements of his increasingly violent trade...
Measured by the emotion it inspires among fans, no other U.S. sport quite compares with pro football. And no team compares with the National Football League's New York Giants. As Eliot Asinof puts it in a new book on the Giants, Seven Days to Sunday (Simon & Schuster, $5.95): "If you are a Giant fan, you have a turbulent heritage of soaring ecstasy and abject humiliation-but never indifference. You are one whose loyalty is unquestioned, whose joy is resounding, whose abusiveness is devastating. You are black or white, rich or poor, Jew or Gentile. You are a janitor...