Word: whall
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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What Sports Illustrated staffer Hugh Whall wrote in a fit of pique last year after Harvard's heavyweight crew refused once again to race in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta in favor of its four-mile event with Yale has been the sentiment of a number of crew writers and followers ever since Pennsylvania has become a threat to Harvard's dominance of the American college rowing scene...
...Harvard prefers to wallop Yale annually for the sake of tradition rather than meet Penn in a winner-take-all showdown at Syracuse, and bothered by the Crimson's unshakable nonchalance about a formally recognized national champion. Harvard's critics have expressed their discontent in such various methods as Whall's highly emotional pieces and the NCAA's decision to recognize the I.R.A. regatta as an officially-sanctioned national championship...
Nash, who coached the Penn freshmen last year, was wearing a souvenir cap from the 1968 Olympic Trials on the dock after the race, and despite urging from Sports Illustrated staffer Hugh Whall, he was quite noncommittal about Penn's prospects at the Sprints next weekend...
...Aren't you Hertz now "Whall asked. "We'd rather be Avis." Nash maintained...