Word: tupouniua
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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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...
Freshman Sione Tupouniua pulled the team out of its first half lethargy with two remarkable individual efforts. He tallied six points for the Crimson by twice snatching the ball out of scrums and storming his way across the goal line...
...second half the wind reversed the advantage in favor of the Crimson. Harvard rallied for six points on two tries by freshman Sione Tupouniua, but muffed both the extra-point place-kicks...
...Thursday the team was held to a 6-6 draw when the University of Virginia scored a try in the last two minutes to even the game. Earlier Harvard built a 6-3 lead on freshman Sione Tupouniua's two scores. He and Tim Neely fell on a kick blocked by Captain Quent Spector for the first score and Sione got the second as he dove over...
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...