Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burly Ed Ajootian travels to the City of Brotherly Love with a third place finish in the NCAA winter championships under his belt. Sophomore Ajootian possesses "a lot of raw talent," according to Harvard track mentor Bill BcCurdy. "He still has some flaws in his swing," McCurdy admits, "but I'm hopeful he can rip off one big throw to get into the thick of the hunt...
With less than a month to go, John B. Fox '59, assistant dean of the Faculty, is still on the inside track to be named the next College dean...
Five long seconds later, after Frank Urso had whipped to ball to midfielder Greg Rump for the tying goal, the chant had faded. A chastened Cornell crowd retreated to the track in front of the stands, embarrassed by their premature and fortunately penultimate celebration, and waited two more overtime periods before pouring onto the field for the last time...
...butt of off-color jokes, harassed constantly by reporters, both legitimate and bogus, and jeered by frequently unsympathetic crowds at every stall or slip, Guthrie had persevered. So thick were the throngs outside her garage in Gasoline Alley that race cars were unable to get through to the track. Accused of entering just as a publicity stunt, mislabeled caustically as a women's libber and once even asked outright if she was a lesbian, Guthrie calmly disclaimed all, except to say: "I'm a driver, period...
Chester's rationale cannot be dismissed as mere puck passing. Only 22,000 saw the Chapman tragedy; today a man kicking dirt on the shoes of an umpire is seen by millions of viewers. University of California Sociologist Harry Edwards, a former college track star, finds that "the violence in sport is magnified by television. The fan can identify with violence in terms of what he would like to do with the forces he cannot control." And in a recent paper in the medical journal Pediatrics, three physicians reported an "Evel Knievel syndrome" -imitation of exhibitionism in sport. "Televised...