Word: sport
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Ronnie Perry played every sport except football. Holy Cross had a winning basketball team because of Ronnie Perry. Holy Cross had a winning baseball team because of him, too. He was the school's best at everything--ski-jumping, calf-roping, powerboat racing, you name...
...Ronnie Perry has been gone for two years, and Holy Cross is beginning to mind losing football teams. No longer is it assured of beating arch-rivals Boston College and Providence College in every sport Ronnie Perry played. They are beginning to joke about the Purple and White again, and Crusaders aren't much on humor...
...things, runners. But neither ran simply because he had the gift of speed. The former was the outwardly arrogant, inwardly fuming son of a rich Jewish family, ever conscious, despite his enrollment at Cambridge, of subtle, painful discrimination. He would beat these gentlemen at their own avocation-amateur sport. If that goal required paying a professional coach (wonderfully played by Ian Holm), a tactic that was against the code if not the formal rules, so be it. Liddell was of an entirely different breed. The modest and pious son of missionaries, he ran, as he saw it, for the glory...
That quality, finally, is what distinguishes the film. Director Hudson is perhaps a little too much in love with slow-motion sport photography, but he is an imagist of surpassing skill. Whether it is a matter of getting the light just right in a college cloister, or of perfectly framing a group of runners in training on an ocean beach, or of making one feel that one has seen just how a D'Oyly Carte production of The Mikado must have looked in the '20s, Hudson painstakingly makes an obscure corner of history reverberate in a nearly mythic...
PRINCETON at DARTMOUTH: Princeton is the sleeper in the Ivies this season, a team that figures to be pretty good, and just might be real good, Dartmouth is the kind of team that gets better as the year goes on (that seems to be true in almost every sport for the Green) and it hasn't beaten Princeton since '78. I go with the Tigers big, PRINCETON 28, DARTMOUTH...