Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field, only to find that he had one more trial to pass-the urine test. Checkups for dope are now mandatory in the Olympics, and for decathlon athletes the tests were given at the end of each day. Because he was totally dehydrated, Toomey had to hang around the stadium drinking liquids until he could supply officials with a urine sample...
Half of the East's undefeated major college teams will be in Harvard Stadium Saturday when fourth-ranked Harvard hosts sixth-ranked Penn in the fourth Ivy contest for each team...
MOST PEOPLE discover purely by accident that Harvard has a rugby team. Perhaps they mean to go the Saturday morning soccer game, and take the wrong turn at the Stadium. Maybe they're looking for the Palmer Dixon tennis courts, and happen upon a scrimmage a few yards away. In any case, only a small knot of students know that a Harvard rugby team exists...
...Faster, Higher, Stronger" is the motto of the Olympic Games. "Angrier, nastier, uglier" better describes the scene in Mexico City last week. There, in the same stadium from which 6,200 pigeons swooped skyward to signify the opening of the "Peace Olympics," Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two disaffected black athletes from the U.S. put on a public display of petulance that sparked one of the most unpleasant controversies in Olympic history and turned the high drama of the games into theater of the absurd...
...added Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly. Most distraught by Smith and Carlos' suspension was their close friend and fellow militant Lee Evans, favorite to win last week's 400-meter dash at Mexico City. So shaken that he had to be helped onto a bus bound for the stadium from the Olympic Village, Evans recovered, won his race and shattered the world record with a clocking of 43.8 sec. Behind him came two other U.S. blacks-Larry James and Ron Freeman-to give the U.S. its first sweep of the games...