Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reads an old Crimson sports page. "The dusty air, blown in off the great plains, is arid and uncomfortable." As the "color" piece goes on, dated 1973, it becomes clear that the on-location reporter hates Omaha. Still, he betrays his excitement about the event he is covering: the 27th annual College World Series, where the presence of a Harvard baseball team is only slightly less likely than Restic's boys making it to the Hula Bowl. This was some show--travelling all the way out there to watch one of the greatest squads in Harvard history take...
...27th birthday and Ernie Holmes, defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was picking up the meat for his party. Not at the supermarket or butcher's, though. Holmes was personally slaughtering a calf at his father's farm outside Houston. "I gave him a forearm lift," says Holmes, describing his barnyard battle with the beast. "That knocked him into the fence Then I put a full nelson on him." Finally Holmes dropped the animal with a high-powered rifle. "Forty-five minutes later," he says, "we had the calf skinned and dried...
Crimson quarterback Jim Kubacki, who in his first varsity season led Harvard to its only undisputed Ivy League football championship in Saturday's win over Yale, last night was named the 27th recipient of the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award as the team's outstanding player...
...seriousness of ERA's defeat lies in its repercussions at the national level. The federal version of the ERA that Congress passed in 1972 needs to be ratified by only four more states in order to become the 27th amendment to the Constitution. But the resounding defeat of ERA in New Jersey and New York has given anti-ERA groups new impetus to renew their efforts to prevent the passage of a federal equal rights amendment...
Army was a distant second (80), followed closely by Ivy powerhouse Dartmouth (83). Dartmouth ran its celebrated "tight pack" formation throughout the race as the Big Green top five finished 11th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 27th...