Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Gibson came to Harvard, the ski team was a loosely-organized, informal operation, unrecognized by the athletic department. Although funds are still a problem, Gibson has managed to expand the team schedule, provide transportation to meets, and get recognition from the Department of Athletics as a major varsity sport...
...Juan Marichal, baseball's reigning pitcher, was having such a good time skindiving back home in the Dominican Republic that he decided to ask for $125,000 instead of a mere $100,-000. Baseball's opening day was less than a month away. So what were most sport fans talking about...
...hundred and sixty-one years after Austerlitz, Napoleon had triumphed again. This time, the hills were the slopes of Franconia, N.H.; the contest was the North American Ski Championships; and the formidable enemy commander was France's Honore Bon net, 47, otherwise known as the Napoleon of the sport. "That can only be," disclaims the coach of the French ski team, "because I am not so tall and comb my hair to the front...
Sand & Rectal Thermometers. The victories really belonged to Bonnet. And it was all the more remarkable because the twelfth child of an Alpine hotelkeeper was so late in showing an interest in the sport. He grew up determined to become a doctor; he never set foot on skis until World War II, when he divided his time between the air force and the maquisards-mountain-based Resistance fighters. While in uniform, he learned to ski so well that at war's end he was asked to take over training the army's Alpine ski troops. There he stayed...
Club president and starting center back Dick Smith says that the sport gives "swimmers a chance to stay in shape and stay in the pool" during the off-season...