Word: tonga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sione, a native of Tonga in the South Pacific, has added a great deal of the tradition to Harvard rugby in the four years he has played. Moderately tall, but solidly built, with dark skin and thick curly hair, he has a ready smile and friendly manner. His post-game ritual, which he claims is "some sort of a Tonganese war dance," has become an eagerly anticipated feature of the Saturday morning matches. The rugby parties and pig roats he gives are notorious...
Harvard's 75 ruggers are powered by Mario Small, an agile running back, scrum-half Phil Ordway, and Tupouniua. Captain Tupouniua is worth watching after Harvard wins, too, as he performs a victory dance from his native Tonga...
...bulkier the monarch, the greater his subjects' blessings and prosperity. This has been the comfortable philosophy of the 77,000 Polynesian islanders of Tonga, a British protectorate 850 miles northeast of New Zealand. The stately figure of their beloved Queen Salote (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.) was widely admired during Queen Elizabeth's coronation procession in London in 1953, when Salote rode proudly erect in the pouring rain without benefit of hat or umbrella; Tongans do not cover themselves in the presence of superiors. Salote died in 1965. Last week her son, Taufa' Ahau Tupou...
Tupou, who waited two years for his crown because of the nation's deep grief over Salote's death, is an Australian-educated lawyer who was Tonga's Prime Minister until his mother died. In his university days, he excelled at such untraditional sports as surfing and pole vaulting. Among his goals: to lure more tourists to the Tonga (Friendly) Islands and to drive out the rhinoceros beetles that threaten Tonga's coconut trees. The King must share his powers with Tonga's elected Parliament and a privy council but, unlike a lot of smaller...
Sione finds life much more hectic in the United States than it was in Tonga, and he feels this attitude carries over into American sports. "I play rugby just for fun and exercise," he says, "and for a good glass of beer afterwards...