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...that in 1962, the Mount Washington Lacrosse Club was forced to win an overtime game for a second time because a sudden death goal was scored during a television timeout?
...that Ruth Riley, an all-star center in the Women's National Basketball Association, also wrote a children's book?
...that Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918?
...that Italo Santelli (pictured, left) is widely considered to be the "father of modern sabre fencing"?
...that Lee McClung, a College Football Hall of Famer, also served as Treasurer of the United States, advocating the withdrawal of worn, dirty banknotes on sanitary grounds?