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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Initially, Harvard's hopes had been dampened by the cold, wet conditions prevailing in Hanover, which made most of the events exercises in frustration, and the absence of tri-captain Todd Hooks, sidelined with a strained ankle, from three of the events he had starred in last week, the 100- and 220-yard dashes and the sprint relays...
...Tri-captain Jeff Campbell demolished the competition in both the mile and half mile events, and Gary Schmidt also flew to a first-place finish in the quarter-mile, with a dramatic come-from-behind-you-saw-it-in-the-movies-once finish...
...Take tri-captain Todd Hooks, for example. Yesterday he was Harvard's version of the Six Million Dollar Man. In the early events of the afternoon, Hooks blazed to a meet record finish in the sprint relay along with teammates Joe Salvo, Len Reynolds and Ralph Polillio. But Hooks later took a hard tumble on the last hurdle of the highs as Paul Organ set another meet record...
...Senior tri-captain Jeff Campbell was responsible for the third Harvard meet record as he burned his way to a first place finish in the mile event, just ahead of the deadly Flora-Bickford combination. Joe Pellegrini grabbed the fourth meet mark with a mighty heave of the discus...
Princeton's star miler Craig Masback did not compete and the Crimson's ranks were thinned by injuries as tri-captain Steve Brown and distance ace Pete Fitzsimmons were both side-lined...