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...impossible to point to a single event as the key, since as the result of every race could determine the eventual winner of the meet, but there are several swimmers to watch. Each team has a star freshman sprinter: Alan Fine for the Tigers and Harvard's Malcom Cooper. They will probably go against each other in the relays and in the 100 free...
Sheila's teammate, Peter Mueller, 21, could also pick up some gold. A long and strong-legged product of Madison, Wis., he too is a sprinter-as well as one of the speed-skating team's coolest poker players. "Peter's a fanatic," says his fiancée and fellow Skater Leah Poulos, 24, herself a medal possibility at 500 meters. "When he wants to be good at something, he doesn't stop." Rounding out the key contenders are U.S. ice dancing champions Colleen O'Connor and Jim Millns. The top American pairs...
...Sprinter Todd Hooks and leaper Mel Embree paced the thinclads to victory with two wins each, but it took a clutch Crimson victory in the mile relay and a high jump sweep to ensure the meet's outcome in the closing moments...
Bradshaw has other weapons as well. Second-year Wide Receiver Lynn Swann has become one of the best pass catchers in the N.F.L., moving through his patterns with the speed of a college sprinter and the fakes of a ten-year veteran. Running Back Rocky Bleier, who was wounded by shrapnel while serving with the Army in Viet Nam, last year became a bruising blocking back for Harris, as well as a dangerous runner in his own right. Helping it all come together in offense is an experienced, hard-charging line that can move out almost any front four, except...
...other solid young runners, Ed Marinaro and Brent McClanahan, or can look downfield for veteran Tight End Stu Voigt. Next to Foreman, Tarkenton's favorite target is Wide Receiver John Gilliam, who, after a brief spell in the World Football League, has returned to Minnesota with his sprinter's speed...