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Senior tight end BOB McDERMOTT will try to net yet another record, since he needs just two catches to surpass Pete Varney '71 as Harvard's career leader in tight end receptions. With those two grabs McDermott, who already holds the record for most career years by a tight end, would also move to third place on Harvard's all-time reception list...
...last week zipped down the runway and into a dawn sky over Pasco, Wash. About two hours and 244 miles later the tiny two-seater landed at Boise, Idaho, to a cheering crowd. The journey was a rerun of the nation's first airmail flight by an outfit (Varney Air Lines) that later became part of United Airlines, and its purpose was to mark a half-century of commercial aviation in the U.S. The milestone, however, comes at a less than auspicious time for most major carriers. Buffeted by a recession-induced fall-off in air travel, exploding fuel...
During the game, Varney went one for three at the plate, lining a double to left field in the eighth inning. Chicago lost, 3-0, but Varney performed admirably behind the plate. Is his position secure? "I hope so," he said, "but you never know...
Then came grad school, where Varney gradually worked his way up from Class A to AA to AAA (in baseball grad school, they don't even give out B's, much less C's), and which eventually led to his place under the Florida sun on the White Sox bullpen bench in Sarasota...
...first game was just about ending, but Varney's day was only beginning; new Sox manager Paul Richards had tabbed Varney to catch the nightcap. Before donning the tools of ignorance, Varney admitted, "Sure, they rib you a little about going to Harvard, but it's not too bad. Most of the guys have a college education, anyway...