Word: tonga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sione first saw a rugby ball six years ago when he began high school in Tonga. He made the varsity as a freshman, and was team captain as a sophomore. His team went undefeated both years. "I was the smallest man on the team," says Sione, who stands 5-11 and weighs 210 pounds...
Edward Dodd '30 met Sione on an anthropological expedition to Tonga. He realized the young rugby star's intellectual talent and sponsored Sione's way through the Putney School in Putney, Vermont...
Harvard has been hurt by the loss of last year's leading scorer, Sione Tupouniua, the barefoot marvel from the Tonga Islands. Tupouniua suffered a shoulder separation in the season's first practice, but should be ready to start against Brown in two weeks...
...boxers will spend their days turning out "the finest cabinets a man can buy," do their training evenings. He already has advertised for applicants in The Ring and claims to have received 50,000 responses-including one from a would-be boxer in the South Pacific islands of Tonga who stands 6 ft. 2 in. and weighs...
Freshman Sione Tupouniua from the Tonga Islands looms as the front line (or scrum's) top prospect. Sione came out for the team in the fall, wanting to play barefoot a la Michigan State kicker Dick Kenney. He competed in one game without shoes before giving in to the concern his fellow players had for his health. But that didn't harm his play. Sione's speedy 210 pounds has made him a feared tackler of enemy ball-carriers...