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...Tommie Smith, 22, a home-grown lad from Acworth, Texas, is virtually unknown. He was not even among the ten candidates for the A.A.U.'s 1966 Sullivan Award to the country's top amateur athlete.* And the oversight seems doubly strange because Smith is currently the best sprinter in the world, as well as one of the most versatile athletes in the history of track and field...
Besides Schollander the Elis have seven sub-1:50 200-yd. freestylers -- enough to stock most countries' Olympic teams. Sprinter Mike Ahearn ranks with the nation's best. In a recent relay, he roared through 100 yards in 46.3 -- 1.7 seconds under the Harvard record...
...Florida's Steve Spurrier, 21, and Richard Trapp, 20, have a simple system of signals: whenever Flanker Trapp sees that he is not being "double-teamed"-meaning covered by two defensive backs-he nods to Quarterback Spurrier, who immediately throws to him. A 9.8-sec. sprinter who is most dangerous on flat passes, Trapp has caught 31 passes for 489 yds. and six touchdowns, is one of the main reasons Florida is ranked No. 8 in the nation. Frank Jackson, an end on the pro Miami Dolphins, says Spurrier is "already better than a bunch of passers in both...
...often said that competition improves with each incoming freshman class. A look at comparative freshmen records over the past few years, however, shows that yearly variations are insignificant. A second hypothesis blames marriage for the disaffection of many of Harvard's finest athletes. It may have been for some -- sprinter Aggrey A word, for example, during his senior year. And yet, Coach John Yovicsin says that none of his married players have stopped their college football or have been hampered in their style. Not one married junior varsity player has thrown in the towel either...
Lynch and Pardee are injured and the varsity, which took third place in the IC4A indoor meet this winter, will be represented by just four competitors -- sprinter. Wayne Anderson, pole vaulter Steve Schoonover, and distance runners Jim Baker and Dave Allen...