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...first skier-male or female-to score a sweep in one of the three Alpine events.* In late December, she cracked Jean-Claude Killy's record of 18 World Cup race victories: as of last week, she had won 28, making her, at age 19, the winningest cup skier...
Blakinger, who joined Starr as one of Harvard's winningest wrestlers this season, picked up 15 wins and a loss and placed sixth in the Eastern championship tourney. After two season in the varsity squad, Blakinger has compiled a 27-4 record...
Strathmeyer (177), who is a freshman, has compiled a 9-7 record this season. Blakinger (15-1), who placed sixth in the Easterns last year, and Starr (15-0-1) are Harvard's winningest matmen...
PENN-CORNELL -- Penn coach Harry Gamble was feeling a little low after his Quakers had broken. Brown's 12 game losing streak last Saturday, but John Yovicsin, Harvard's winningest, and losingest, football coach who retired in 1970, wrote Gamble a letter of condolence: "Dear Harry, I know how you feel. I too once broke a Brown losing streak back in 1969. But things can only better. I am planning intramural volleyball tournaments now at 60 Boylston St., and last month. I was promoted from the basement to the first floor. So hang in there. Harry Best, Yovvy." Gamble...
Died. Eddie Neloy, 50, one of the winningest trainers in horseracing history; of a heart attack; in Elmont, N.Y. At 14, Neloy ran away from the slums of Chicago's South Side to become a jockey. "How was I to know," he later sighed, "that I was going to grow up to be 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 lbs.?" Neloy took a $5-a-week job as a groom. He was hired by the Phipps family and wound up training such moneymakers as Successor and Buckpasser. In 1966 Neloy earned a record $2,456,250 for the Phipps...