Word: varney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday afternoon, November 23, 1968, when Harvard tied Yale, 29-29, in THE GAME of all THE GAMES, and when sophomore receiver Pete Varney was mobbed in the endzone by incredulous Harvard loyalists for catching the winning conversion pass with no time left on the clock...
...business school or something," he says. Brayton went to exclusive Milton Academy; his father is head of a large clothing company in Pennsylvania. This isn't held against him in baseball, where there are "just a bunch of guys, like at Harvard or anywhere else. Hell, look at Varney." And indeed, White Sox catcher Pete Varney '71 comes from Quincy, Massachusetts--his background has none of the trappings of the Harvard stereotype, unless it is the very real stereotype of the local kid plucked up by Harvard athletics. With an occasional exception. Brayton says, ball players don't know...
Former Harvard baseball star PETE VARNEY '71 will be sharing the catching duties for the Chicago White Sox with Steve Downing this season. The Chisox traded top catcher Ed Hermann this spring giving the former Crimson slugger a regular shot at the big leagues. Dartmouth's former ace PETE BROBERG pitched 6 1/3 innings against the Red Sox Wednesday as he and his Milwaukee Brewer teammates earned a 7-4 win over Boston Broberg figures to be a regular in the Brewers starting rotation...
Thus it was with considerable incredulity last week that New York's taxi masochists learned that one of the biggest fleets in town, called Helen Maintenance, had hired Designer Carleton Varney to refurbish its taxis in Holiday Inn splendor. The company's 104 Checker cabs will have green-and-white checked vinyl-covered seats, red tweed weather-resistant carpeting, solid green jump seats and matching interior walls. Seat belts will be bright red and ceilings will be painted blue-with an occasional white cloud and colorful bird -symbolizing, no doubt, New York's sky-high fares. Says...
...years ago hitters like DiMichael and Varney blasted balls over fences for the Crimson all the time. In the absence of that sort of power hitting, Harvard has turned into a running, hustling ball club...