Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Veteran distance men Eddie Sheehan, Peter Fitzsimmons and Mark Meyer capped their Harvard careers in a typically steady manner. The sprinters pulled off some stellar surprises in the face of debilitating injuries; but the jumpers, except for the superlative Stiles, had a disappointing season...
Laboring without stellar midfielder Peter Predun after he broke his right thumb early in the schedule, the laxmen amassed a 10-4 record. Goalie Kenny First played superbly, forward Mike Faught battled valliantly and freshman Norm Forbush exhibited style--but the NCAAs were still a step away...
Though important advances resulted from these and other early missions, the results were still comparatively primitive--the best pre-HEAO-2 X-ray photos of the sky show only blurs and blotches. Though many different and powerful X-ray sources had been found-- among them the leftovers from stellar explosions ("supernova remnants"); some unusual galaxies; and quasars, star-like objects that gave off enormous amounts of energy--their precise structure still could not be observed...
Faught rippled the net four times in all, thrice after feeds from the still-improving but already stellar younger Forbush. The Crimson's fast break play often ends up with Faught--described by his own goalie Kenny First as "a Howitzer"--facing the goalie alone out in front of the net: your basic foregone conclusion...
Gaudet's acrobatics, which shut off the comeback bid of the resurging B.U. attack in the last six minutes of the game, proved to be the stellar performance in the contest...