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...breaking your foot three times, tearing a tendon in your shoulder, or having calcium deposits in your leg doesn't stop you, not much will. "I always feel good enough to play by the weekend," says Al Halliday the co-captain of the Harvard rugby team, who has endured all these inconveniences and more in his four years of Harvard rugby...
Buck Logan, a premier distance runner, one of the best in the East, and "certainly our best," according to McCurdy, is already lost for the fall due to an achilles tendon problem. While Logan is the only harrier sidelined for the season at this point, Harvard has few top-flight distance runners returning who have not been handicapped by injury...
Perhaps the most memorable of all the thinclad performances at the GBC did not, however, win any gold. Still plagued with the Achilles tendon problems that have prevented him from competing for months, team co-captain John Murphy ran the 10,000 meters in the drizzle Saturday and the 5000 meters Sunday. Murphy, who asked to run the 10,000 since otherwise the Crimson would go unrepresented in the event, took fourth place with a time of 30:57.9 and thereby added two points to the Crimson tally. The performance appeared all the more incredible because the only training Murphy...
Despite an erroneous announcement to the contrary at last weeks' Greater Boston Track Championships, Mel Embree's GBC and Harvard indoor high jump record of 7-ft. 2 1/4 in., still stands. And despite an achilles tendon injury and a successful law career, Embree is still jumping...
Moving on to Harvard Law School with a personal best of 7 ft., 3 3/4-in., the current Harvard record, Embree continued jumping and has not stopped since moving West except for the time lost from the injury last year. "Between my achilles tendon problems and us not going to the Olympics. I didn't work as hard as I should have to heal it," Embree says, but adds that he is nearing full strength again, and jumping over seven feet...