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Today is my last day as lame-duck sports editor of The Crimson. It may also be my last day as a Harvard student, depending on the mood my section leaders are in. So it is with a spirit of reckless abandon that I offer the following reflections on sports at Harvard...
...November 1975. Harvard wins its first undisputed Ivy football title when quarterback Jim Kubacki hits Bob McDermott on a fourth-and-12, and Mike Lynch kicks a wobbly duck of a field goal through the posts with seconds remaining...
...crews trudged across fields to film peasants at work, invaded a long-closed public park to get shots of young people courting, and barged into a beauty parlor to record post-Mao women getting their hair done; an ABC crew solemnly documented the progress of a plump Peking duck from barnyard to dinner plate. For the newsmen, reported TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark, who joined the tour, the trip was "like sitting down to a huge Chinese banquet. News was everywhere...
...Duck" Fleming popped one in from 18 feet, but that was the last Harvard bucket for almost eight minutes as Northeastern ran off 15 unanswered points. When Robert Taylor finally canned a 15-footer from just left of the foul line at 11:05 the score was 60-46 Northeastern, and the Crimson had been outscored...
...little irritated with people who duck and run when the chips are down, said Ford, indirectly referring to Carter. Ford also said that the Shah, who is considered more friendly to the U.S. that, any of his potential replacements, said the nations should support his regime to keep a steady flow of petroleum imports from the oil-rich Middle East state...