Word: sprinters
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Captain Wayne Andersen, University record holder in the 100 (9.7 seconds) is the leading sprinter. Bill Jewett, Sam Robinson, and Randy Thompson will provide depth. Jeff Huvelle and Dave McKelvey are the Crimson's leading quarter milers...
...Tommie Smith, 22, a home-grown lad from Acworth, Texas, is virtually unknown. He was not even among the ten candidates for the A.A.U.'s 1966 Sullivan Award to the country's top amateur athlete.* And the oversight seems doubly strange because Smith is currently the best sprinter in the world, as well as one of the most versatile athletes in the history of track and field...
...decidedly more appealing. In Rome, when a Soviet reporter jeered that Clay's new fame would not buy him a seat in any Louisville restaurant, Cassius retorted: "At least I ain't fighting alligators and living in a mud hut!" He had a crush on Olympic Sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who didn't respond. In his strait-laced fashion, he married a cocktail waitress and tried to get her to adopt Muslim ways, but it didn't take; he charged in his divorce suit last year that her slacks were too tight. And in his peculiar, affecting...
Besides Schollander the Elis have seven sub-1:50 200-yd. freestylers -- enough to stock most countries' Olympic teams. Sprinter Mike Ahearn ranks with the nation's best. In a recent relay, he roared through 100 yards in 46.3 -- 1.7 seconds under the Harvard record...
...Florida's Steve Spurrier, 21, and Richard Trapp, 20, have a simple system of signals: whenever Flanker Trapp sees that he is not being "double-teamed"-meaning covered by two defensive backs-he nods to Quarterback Spurrier, who immediately throws to him. A 9.8-sec. sprinter who is most dangerous on flat passes, Trapp has caught 31 passes for 489 yds. and six touchdowns, is one of the main reasons Florida is ranked No. 8 in the nation. Frank Jackson, an end on the pro Miami Dolphins, says Spurrier is "already better than a bunch of passers in both...