Word: steves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heisman Trophy conveys the very essence of the purposeful, straight-ahead backfield powerhouse. As a rule, however, the award that designates the country's best college football player goes to a man of flashier stripe-the fancy-Dan quarterback, the breakaway halfback. Not this year. In Tailback Steve Owens of Oklahoma, the Heisman electors tapped a man little given to subtlety afield. "Oh, he can fake people," says one of his coaches, "but more often he just splatters...
...Twelve penalties, six on each squad, were called in the final 13 minutes, and when McManama knocked Harvard's final goal past Eberly at 11:51, there were two Huskies in the penalty box. Joe Cavanagh and Steve Owen, members of Harvard's junior line, were sent off three minutes later. and the Crimson barely surrived their loss. plus inexcusably careless defensive play, to preserve the 6-3 victory...
...yard lead, which his team preserved through the first 200 yards. But on the third leg, Crimson butterflyer Johnny Munk began to make up ground on his Springfield opponent, closing the lead to a foot with only the freestyle leg left. Toby Gerhart quickly evened the race and passed Steve O'Mearn in the final 35 yards to win by less than a second...
...Steve Krause, the Crimson's top point-getter last winter, lapped both of Springfield's men twice on his way to an easy triumph in the 1000-free, and sophomore Andy Huff was second...
Moulton was a double winner for Springfield. Pete Mikhalevsky, a Harvard sophomore, took an early lead in the breaststroke before Moulton moved ahead, and then a three-way race for second developed among Mikhalevsky, Steve Banmgart, and Springfield's Al Kleitz. Kleitz outlasted the Crimson swimmers to give the visitors their only sweep of the night...