Word: swedes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...quarterback in 1972 and 1973 and an All-East shortstop in 1973, Stoeckel blitzed the Harvard sports scene as an undergraduate. He was Ivy football player of the year and recipient of the Swede Nelson award for sports-manship in 1973. Among the records he still holds are most completions and attempts in a game (27-48), as well as completions and attempts in a season(112-209). He punted more than any other Crimson hoofer--149 times...
...envied. All the tennis fans on the plane-including the pilot -came around for autographs, and many of them looked at me as though their idea of dying and going to heaven was to sit and talk to Bjorn Borg for two hours." Inside the phlegmatic Swede, Phillips found, there is a bright, charming young man. "He's not wildly controversial or colorful," she says. "But he has a dry, self-deprecating wit, and the patience and good will of a true gentleman. He will sign hundreds of autographs and never let on to people that they happen...
...early rounds, "before I have a chance to get the feel of the court, the atmosphere of the tournament, the sense of my game." Ironically, his opening round opponent at Wimbledon is Egypt's Ismail El Shafei, 32, one of three players to beat Borg there. He eliminated the Swede in the third round of the 1974 Wimbledon...
McEnroe, victorious over Borg in two matches out of five, marvels at the Swede's stamina...
...Borg's first contract. Donnay's racquet sales quadrupled in its first five years with Borg. Didier Ailloud, deputy sales director of the French firm that makes VS strings, believes that as much as 15% of new customers come his way after being swayed by the Swede. Says Ailloud: "I am convinced that the identification of Bjorn with our product is of inestimable importance...