Training in the Alps would do the same thing, but going to Switzerland is pretty expensive, so ERIC SCHULER decided to use a high altitude stimulator to help him train for his distance events. Though Schuler looks more like an underwater diver than a runner coach BILL MCCURDY was so impressed with his progress that he ordered three more for the other distance runners. To date, McCurdy has received the bill, the literature, and the refill cartridge but no simulator... Coach FRANK HAGGERTY who has been hospitalized ever since he burned his ankle while leaving the Harvard-Brown hockey game, is expected to be released early this week... Freshmen took a liking to the GBCs last weekend--Yardling CLIFF SHEEHAN won the 1000 and classmates JIM GREGORY, ANDY GERKEN, and JIM HERBERICH all turned their best performances this season.

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Last Monday's squash match against MIT marked the long-awaited debut of the Brothers Dinneen. While older brother John has held down the team's number seven spot for much of the season, young Peter (a freshman) got his first chance for varsity action against the Engineers and made the most of it, matching his brother's 3-0 win... The squash world's a small one. Princeton co-captain Steve Loughran and the Crimson's Geordie Lemmon spent three years of secondary schooling together at Haverford. Loughran going on to graduate from the Pennsylvania prep school with Lemmon switching to Exeter for his final two years.

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TONY VISONE, one of the more consistent Harvard hockey players of late, tallied one assist in last Monday night's 6-5 Beanpot consolation loss to North-eastern. The single point was only minor consolation for the Crimson wing, who celebrated his 20th birthday on Monday. He had several good opportunities to give himself and his teammates an even bigger present--a birthday goal--but couldn't put the puck in the net... Harvard's fourth-place finish in this year's Beanpot marks the third straight year that the previous champion has dropped all the way to fourth in the following tourney. Boston University nabbed the title in '78 and slumped to last the next year, as Northeastern took its first-ever Beanpot crown. Last season, the Huskies returned to their Beanpot norm--the cellar--and Harvard took home the beans. If you believe in tradition, you may want to get some money down on B.U.--this year's winner of the silver 'Pot--taking the big fall in '83.

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Nearly 40 people showed up at Thursday night's final planning meeting for the women's rugby team, and match secretary CATHERINE FERRANTE says she has already scheduled three games for the first-year ruggers.