Word: sportingly
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Harvard's squash team, which obliterated Dartmouth yesterday, is back in the running for its sixth consecutive national championship. National honors in the gentleman's sport aren't nebulous debates like football, but are fairly cut and dry because all the good teams are in the East and play each other during the regular season. When the perenially favored Crimson was victimized by screaming Annapolis galleries and dropped a 6-3 decision to Navy last month, it looked as if the Midshipmen would steal the crown...
GOAL! This two-hour documentary helps to explain why soccer is the world's most popular spectator sport. Cameras from all angles have captured the ferocious spirit, footloose genius and demonic will to win of the 16 teams that competed in England last summer for the 1966 World...
...meeting of European skier-lawyers last year attempted to make a start at dealing with the situation, and similar meetings are planned this April. Many are opposed to a binding code. "It would ruin the sport," moans Paul Maschke, a lawyer, and president of the Radstadt Ski Club. "They would soon be issuing skiing licenses the same as drivers' licenses." But if the growing popularity of skiing continues to increase the population on any incline with snow, the view of another Austrian lawyer, Dr. Karl Homann, is likely to pack more weight. "Rules are not enough," he says...
Died. Robert J. H. Kiphuth, 76, Yale's peerless swimming coach from 1918 to 1959, who was only a fair-to-middling paddler himself but had such an eye for form, such a fetish for physical fitness and such a commitment to his sport (he would sit at the bottom of the pool in a diving suit to spot flaws invisible from above) that he won 528 dual meets (v. only twelve losses) and four national championships for Yale plus four Olympic victories for the U.S.; following an intestinal hemorrhage; in New Haven, Conn...
...road trip, generally unpleasant in any sport, meant disaster for the Harvard squash team this weekend...