Word: sports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some teams don't feel it's worth the hassle to become a varsity sport. The sports department reaches its bureaucratic claws into coach selection, the team plays a prescribed schedule and everything goes under Harvard regulation. On the other hand, there are a few benefits--a paid coach, an expense free trip to a game or meet and the prestigious Harvard...
...team has a place to play, the next question concerns a coaching staff. Will anyone coach the sport for free? Working with a women's volleyball or softball team--teaching both the fundamentals and the strategy--takes an enormous amount of time. But these sports have no paid coaches. "We have to find our own," says one softball team member...
...Taunton Sport Parachuting Center would be a complex--hangars, training and meeting rooms, a cafeteria, office and parachute lofts. It would be the pride of Taunton, I imagined. It would grace the flank of their small municipal airport, attracting small town heroes, coquettes, and gawkers. It would be the center stage for a boy's dive into manhood...
...small flourescent sign marks the upper side of a green trailor that rusts on four rotting tires: "The Taunton Sport Parachuting Center." An empty field of uncut grass stretches out from the trailor and road, stopping before a band of trees and marsh. No planes, no parachutes, no jumpers. The wind twists dust and leaves in a lonely, aimless swirl...
...Those of you here for the classes and jump, please enter and sign in please," a dark haired woman says. She passes out three forms, one for the American Sky Jumpers Association, one for the Taunton Sport Parachuting Center, and one for the sake of everyone but the sky jumper and his family, in case of the most unfortunate incident. The latter is an eight paragraph, single sentence document freeing the center, its employees, their relatives, the town of Taunton, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from any responsibilities, financial obligations or guilt in the event of "the quickest fall...