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...mile has seemed personally to belong to Harvard's Ric Rojas of late, and the junior is favored again this weekend. There are, however, a surfeit of sub-nine-minute two milers to contend with, so the race could be a wide-open affair, as could the mile with John Quirk...
...last week's GBC's the two mile shapes up as a wide-open battle this time between Ric Rojas of Harvard, Vanderkraats and Good of Princeton, and Mearns of Yale. Rojas, who ran away from the field last Saturday to win in 8:48.8 could do the same this weekend, while Jim Keefe could surprise everyone with a repeat performance of his second-place GBC finish...
Restic's "wide-open" system is supposed to produce the kind of big play that can win a game in the last seconds. Yet, in the four League games this season, Harvard hasn't broken any long touchdowns at all, and I doubt that many of the fans who have sat through the last few seasons of Harvard football expected the Crimson to salvage last week's Penn fiasco with an outburst of late game scoring...
...sophomore year, Dartmouth was unbeaten as usual, but Harvard had Rocket Rod Foster at QB. Early in the first quarter. Foster dropped back, spotted a wide-open receiver, and threw the ball into the stands. Dartmouth won again, 49-14. My junior year, Joe Restic came down from the Canadian woods, and another quarterback, Jimmy Stoekel, broke the Harvard passing record with 20 completions, which says something about the last 99 years of Harvard football. But Dartmouth still won, on Ted Perry's last second field goal(" I did it for Dad," Perry told the Record American after the game...
...fact if crafty old Nabokov had not written the first and best motel tour in Lolita, one might think that cityfolk like Mrs. Roiphe should stay off the road and leave the driving to the sons and daughters of the wide-open spaces. Long Division is a disappointing book by a talented writer. What it lacks is convincing physical settings or incidents to sustain the mournful interior monologues of the trapped and finally boring heroine. The author is energetic enough. She offers accounts of breakdowns and highway fatigue, as well as side trips to the Hershey chocolate factory, a Cherokee...