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Back in junior high, before boyfriends and girlfriends made it big, the pecking order was decided with wrist wrestling matches...
...will never be the same, though. Not since the Monday night opening of the Harvard Wrist Wrestling Championships. The Harvard version, with its muscle-rippling behemoths trudging around preparing themselves for about five seconds of exertion more closely resembled backstage at a weightlifting tournament than the old junior high cafeteria...
Brown seized the early advantage with a quick snap of his wrist, but Rubenstein, the fans' choice, held him off. Muscles bulged and Rubenstein's face turned bright red but neither arm moved. Finally Brown wore down Rubenstein and his defeated arm came smashing down...
Philip S. Sloan '77, another contestant, said he is not practicing for the event. "Wrist-wrestling is not exactly the type of thing you go into training for. Either you're good or you're not," he said...
Daniel G. Acosta '79, an entrant in the competitions, said yesterday he expects it to be "a wide-open contest" because so many inexperienced wrist-wrestlers have entered the tournament...