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However, Director Harold Becker does succeed in capturing the excitement of wrestling and athlete training. A la Rocky, Louden's training is exciting. His heroic--in fact, lunatic--efforts to reduce his body fat and muscle up for the big wrestling showdown with Shufe produces a strange thrill. He runs the miles to his room-service job in a downtown hotel, and foregoes any and all nourishment. He drop the weight so quickly that his nose bleed during practice. We feel his nervous anticipation as he waits in the locker room. His wrestling is not just a sport...
However, East Stroudsburg, the second-ranked team in the East, squeaked by the Crimson, 15-12 and 15-13, in the quarterfinal round--and then defeated Pitt to move into the finals and an anticipated showdown with top-ranked George Mason...
...loss against Clarkson tonight would make the Crimson the fourth playoff seed, setting up a showdown with fifth-place Yale in next weekend's quarterfinals...
...hoop fans couldn't help but notice the irony in last Saturday's Harvard-Princeton showdown that had Tiger John Thompson, Jr. guarding the Crimson's Bob Ferry...
Initially, though the Crimson appeared it might sneak out of the showdown against the losingest Tiger squad in 29 years with a victory...