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Tiger hopes rest on the four fullbacks. Sophomores Greg Sachnewycz and Tom Weidner will join John Gessinger and Bob Mayer in an attempt to throttle Harvard's high scoring offense, which has been averaging 3.5 goals per Ivy game...
Fullback Tag Domment '68 plays varsity hockey, as does senior halfback Dex Newton. But the big Leverett-Winthrop game is November 9, a week after the hockey season begins, and it is doubtful whether these backs will be available. Halfback Tom Stuart '63 and junior middle guard Don Weidner play important roles in the Winthrop attack...
...last all was ready. On Christmas Eve, Weidner and Wagner piled their wives and four children aboard, not forgetting three tons of household belongings. For added protection the plotters shoveled a ton of coal and potatoes into the back of the bus. Then they chugged off north toward Berlin along back roads to escape Communist patrols. Just before they reached the Wall, they planned to swing west in order to enter the East-West Autobahn leading to the U.S. sector of the city...
Sharp Blades. The hazards would be great on the journey to the border; so Weidner signed up a fellow villager, Jürgen Wagner, 22, to take the wheel. Eight days before Christmas, the pair began the feverish preparations in Weidner's garage. First Weidner and Wagner attached a heavy snowplow to the front of the bus, not to plow snow, but to scoop away the heavy obstacles they knew awaited them at roadblocks ahead...
Flying Potatoes. "Wah-ah, wah-ah," shrieked the police-type klaxons that Weidner had thoughtfully installed in advance. The Communist guards obediently raised the first of three barriers. But what was a bus doing on emergency duty? Suddenly the shooting began-too late. Wagner, at 40 m.p.h., was already crashing through the second barrier 100 yards ahead, then the third, only 20 yards away...