Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With no house lacrosse at Harvard, many former high school players have had to give up the sport, feeling that they were just not good enough to play on a varsity level. A JV team could be the perfect answer for these men and also for beginners, for whom it would provide important game experience...
Water Polo is an easy sport to play if you happen to be a seal. Otherwise it's a rather exhausting experience...
There are a few hardy souls at Harvard, however, members of the three-year old Harvard Water Polo Club, who play the sport for real, and after winning only two games out of six last season, have high hopes for a successful campaign this spring...
Although the first ski bob was apparently patented in the U.S. in 1892, the sport only recently started flourishing in the resort center of Crans-Montana in the Swiss Alps. When the first handful of ski bobbers showed up there two years ago, they were greeted by derisive laughter; now the resort has three slopes set aside for their use, rents out 600 bobs at $4 per day. Half a dozen other Alpine resorts, including Davos, Arosa and St. Moritz, are readying skibob slopes for next season, in hopes of attracting an entirely new clientele: people on the far side...
Record 102 M.P.H. Indeed, ease and safety are part of ski bobbing's appeal. Nonskiers can master the sport in a day or two, learning to use their legs as shock absorbers while the bob dances freely beneath them. Since there are four points of contact with the snow, spills happen much less frequently than in skiing, and enthusiasts insist that it is virtually impossible to break a leg. Even when elated beginners go too fast and hit a bump, the worst that usually happens is a harmless wipe-out in soft snow...