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This does not require that varsity and intramural sports be phased out or ignored. It does require some careful scrutiny as to how the $2.7 million athletic budget can be most efficiently distributed so that the greatest number of Harvard sportsmen and women can benefit from the College's athletic resources...
Like millions of armchair sportsmen, Robert L. Martin spent the final Sunday of 1973 in front of his TV set. Ensconced in the den of his Las Vegas home, he watched the Minnesota Vikings systematically destroy the Dallas Cowboys. Then he switched channels to see the Miami Dolphins take apart the Oakland Raiders. Unlike his fellow fans, though, Martin was actually hard at work all the time he was staring at the tube. Soon after the final gun sounded, he received a call from the Churchill Downs bookie parlor across town and announced his initial betting line for the Super...
Other varsity sportsmen were not so eager to welcome women to their Club. Ric LaCivita '74, a soccer player, said, "I don't really like it. No, not at all. It would just make things so proper...
...unpredictable moment and for an unknown reason, one or more blows will leave their mark." Present boxing conditions reduce the number of professional fights a boxer is likely to endure. Just by being in the ring, however, he exposes his head to punishment more frequently than other sportsmen. And once brain tissue is destroyed, "it is gone for good...
...chapter in the story of the ancient struggle between sclerotic age and limber youth. In three straight sets that lasted 2 hr. 5 min., Billie Jean King, 29, the pride of women's tennis, briskly dispatched Robert Larimore Riggs, the huckster who had hustled the world of spectator sportsmen into believing that you really can go home again...