Word: captain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard certainly has the top collegiate squash player in the nation in Larry Terrell. The senior captain has finished second to Nayar in the collegiate individual championships in the last two years. "If it weren't for Nayar, Larry would be the country's best collegiate player." Barnaby said many times last year. Now his prediction is true...
Last year's freshman captain. Al Ackerman, followed with a narrow victory in the 200-free over the Chiefs' Tom Purcell. Ackerman picked first in the lottery Monday night, was only a half-stroke ahead until a spurt in the final 50 yards gave him a winning time of 1:53.8. a second better than Purcell...
...Mark-Owen-Paul combination scored both of Harvard's first two goals in the opening period, and brought Harvard back from a 1-0 deficit. St. Nick's Jack Garrity, the Harvard captain two years ago, had jammed the puck under Durno from two feet out, after little more than ten minutes of playing time to put the New York club ahead...
...Last fall when he was elected captain of the 1969 football team, John Cramer said, "We should be very good next year, especially on offense." Cramer cannot legitimately be criticized for naivete because the outlook really was good. Nor is it appropriate to throw any more barbs at a beleaguered team. But it is interesting to note that while people were throwing about cheery predictions for the football team last fall and even this fall, almost nothing was heard about what might become of the cross country or soccer teams. As it turns out, both finished regular season play undefeated...
...predicament speaks for itself, unfortunately. It would be a great relief to Harvard people who care about such things if next year Yovicsin could produce the same sort of psychological therapy as Munro has this fall. But, then again, the two men are very different from each other. Maybe captain Gary Farneti can effect some changes in the level of team spirit...