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...Charles to evening basketball games at the MAC. But even more impressive than Paul’s own athletic prowess and dedication was his ability to rally his housemates out onto the field, river, or court. Indeed, in 2004 Paul’s efforts led Eliot to win the Straus Cup for Intramural Athletics for the first time since 1982 and the Agassiz Cup for House Crew for the first time since 1992. Paul’s record, as these accomplishments suggest, will be hard to match; his presence impossible to replace...
...fact that they were “freezing out” Harvard ladies—and somehow they made it into FM’s gossip column for doing so. And legend has already embraced Paul and Steve’s unasked-for encore after Eliot won the Straus cup; after the festive ceremony and luncheon, they seized the microphones and sat back in lawn chairs. Their impromptu stand-up routine and reflections on IM glory echoed through the courtyard long after most residents were back to cramming for finals...
...accomplished pre-med student, Gilligan also left his mark on Harvard through a passion for intramural sports. The Eliot House IM secretary, he was a driving force behind the Eliot win in the 2004 Straus Cup. His personal dedication—he was known to practice and play a series of different sports for five hours a day—was complemented by an infectious enthusiasm that drew others in the House to participate, friends said...
Under Gilligan’s leadership, Eliot forfeited only a single event, a tennis match, during their victorious 2004 Straus Cup campaign. “He was really good about getting people who weren’t excited about sports out playing and having fun, and that was really good for the community,” Wallace said yesterday...
...Paul was really funny when we won the Straus Cup,” she remembered. “Afterwards, he and Steve [Robbins], they had this microphone [in the Eliot courtyard]...they did this interview show where they kept interviewing each other, asking things like, ‘What’s it like to be the best IM athlete ever?’” Wallace recalled. “People kept calling to complain because they were so noisy. They had to have one of the security guards in Eliot literally drag them away from the microphone...