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Freshmen--want to be a big hit on the tail gate circuit this fall? Upperclassmen --think you know everything about Harvard sports? Grad Students -- think you know anything at all?

If you answered "yes" to any one of these questions that's probably one more right than you'll get after taking this Harvard Sports Quiz. We've chosen only the highlights of the past few years from our trivia file here at the Crimson Sports Cube, so don't go crazy just because Kevin Carr or "Doc" Hines aren't listed.

18--20 correct: I'd like to meet you. 14--17: Expert, but no Rotary Scholarship. 10--13: Solid, but you'll probably never get out of group three. 5--9: Probably think 60 Boylston St. is a discoteque. 0--4: Hang it up.

1. What quarterback did Frank Champi replace in the famous 29-29 tie of the 1968 Harvard-Yale game?

2. What number did Harvard hockey star Joe Cavanaugh wear? Who wears it now?

3. Receiver Pat McInally is the most recent Harvard football first team All-American, achieving that honor in 1974. He did it some 33 years after the last Crimson All-American gridder. Who was this guard turned Governor of Massachusetts?

4. Who was the last Harvard football player to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship?

5. Who was the last Harvard basketball player to finish in the top twenty in NCAA scoring?

6. What was Milt Holt's nickname?

7. What two Radcliffe tennis players were among the first female Rhodes Scholars?

8. What Harvard attackman and Crimson photographer tied the University season record with 58 goals last lacrosse season?

9. Whose third period goal against B.U. gave Harvard the 1977 Beanpot Hockey crown?

10. What former Harvard soccer goalie led the New York Cosmos to the 1977 NASL championship?

11. What Olympic-bound jumping jack holds the Harvard high jump record?

12. What two-sport Harvard athlete hit one out of Fenway Park to win the 1973 NCAA District One playoffs?

13. Who was the UMass pitcher he hit if off?

14. What Princeton freestyler beat Bobby Hackett off the blocks in the last leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay and eventually won the Easterns for the Tigers last year?

15. How long was Mike Lynch's field goal to beat Yale in 1975?

16. What converted soccer star had two assists in the opening game of the 1977 Beanpot?

17. What former Harvard golfer lost in his bid for Coop Student Board of Directors two years ago?

18. What number did Joe Beaulieu wear during his season on the Harvard freshman basketball team?

19. Who are the only two Harvard athletes ever to earn letters for figure skating?

20. What Harvard assistant football coach played on the 1963 NFL champion Chicago Bears?

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ANSWERS: 1) George Lalich 2) 9, Murray Dea 3) Endicott "Chub" Peabody 4) adjuster George Newhouse in 1976 5) Jim Fitzsimmons with a 24.2 scoring average in 1971-72 6) "Pineapple" 7) Denise Thal, Lissa Muscatine 8) Mike Faught 9) Jon Garrity 10) Shep Messing 11) Mel Embree 12) Jim Stoeckel 13) Baltimore Orioles star lefthander Mike Flanagan 14) Andy O'Hara 15) 26 yards 16) Lyman Bullard 17) Alex Vik 18) 10 19) Dick Button, John Misha Petkevich 20) Larry Glueck