Word: tuke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Tuke is Harvard's football version of the Rennaissance Man. He starts at adjuster for the Crimson defense, a polite Ivy League name for what's called the "monster man" in the Midwest. It's a position that combines the pursuit of a lineman, the hard tackling of a linebacker, and the receiver-coverage of a defensive back...
...while broken vertebrae and muddy multi-flexes have grabbed the ink of the first two football weeks. Tuke's been latching on to opposing ankles and legs, and in last week's rainy loss to UMass he came up with his first interception of the year...
...John Tuke's been adjusting very well...
...Tuke is not the Ron Patimkin-type jock that one assumes comes out of the Buckeye State like bottles at a beer factory, but rather a kind of model of the down-to-earth Midwesterner. He came to Harvard four years ago possibly to pursue a collegiate football career, and not be pursued...
Needless to say, Tuke didn't quit. An all-state safety out of St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, he started for the 1974 freshman team at safety and was second on the team in tackles. His eventual shift to adjuster came in the middle of his sophomore year and last year he backed up Lou Rice while seeing considerable action on special teams...