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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Even without the services of number-two player Howard Sands, the Harvard racket swingers had no trouble handing the Lions their first home loss of the year. The match was played on clay in the dingy confines of the Columbia Tennis Center...
Grossman's victory came against a player who had defeated Pompan in a winter tournament. Cooper had recently dropped from the number one position on the Columbia squad...
...Rowe, McAdoo and Wicks are gone, and the winters of the Celtics' discontent have ended. The arrival of a new Bird (Larry, the No. 2 college scorer for the previous two years and the paradigm of a team player) and the revival of the old Cowens (Dave, the fiery redhead whose intensity inspires others) have combined to rejuvenate a franchise that had lost touch with its legacy. Boston is winning again, and winning the Celtic...
Between that overconfidence and dozens of sunning Quaker rooters, the match was a struggle all the way. Number one singles player Don Pompan worried about his upcoming match with the MCATs, and he lost a couple of rough sets to Murray Robinson, whom he had narrowly defeated last year...
Crimson hockey player David Burke '82 expresses similar sentiments. "I had pretty much decided I wanted a full scholarship, with money on the side, the big man on campus scene, and all that. But as time wound down, I realized I didn't want everything handed to me, and that I could get the same things by working for them," Burke says. Which is not to say Harvard did not recruit Burke: "I kept getting calls from the presidents of all these companies who went to Harvard telling me to stay East and go to Harvard." But, Burke adds, Crimson...