Word: villanova
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Villanova, perennial champions, having taken six of the last eight titles, dropped to fifth place...
John Harnett, an Irish transplant to Villanova, blazed to the individual championship in the record time of 24:00, which eclipsed the old record by three seconds. Hartnett placed third in last year's meet...
...strong men on the Providence team are two Irishmen, reported to be among the best in their nation. And Ireland, after all, has been stocking the Villanova powerhouse for years...
Abplanalp was born in The Bronx to Swiss immigrant parents. His father was a machinist who instilled in his son a liking for gadgetry and tinkering. Abplanalp studied engineering at Villanova, but dropped out to open his own machine shop. After he returned from World War II to find his shop had fallen $10,000 in debt, he slowly began to work his way out. One day, a customer brought in an aerosol spray can with an expensive but unreliable valve that had leaked. Abplanalp began thinking of ways to solve the problem, and eventually designed a new, less leak...
Kleiger's record-shattering win in the pole vault was unquestionably the top Harvard performance of the meet, but John Quirk almost won himself a share of the limelight with a second place in the mile. Quirk ran a fast 4:04.4, edging out Villanova junior Brian McElroy at the wire to take second behind Manhattan's Tony Colon. Colon finished one second ahead of Quirk...