Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Crimson eagers were knowking off midyear blue books, the Ancient Eight's other squads were knocking of each other...
...Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine...
...Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine...
...mark. Since the top four squads will host the quarterfinal playoff--contests, making the first four is crucial...In addition, with those two wins, Cornell moved into a tie for first place with Harvard in the Ivy League standings. Both clubs are 4-0-1 in the Ancient Eight...Army, after going 0-11 in its first year in Division 1, returned to a more familiar opponent last weekend and earned a 15-2 victory over Division 11 Buffalo State Saturday night...
...teams most figured to be on bottom. At 2-0 is a surprising Yale squad that's recorded Ancient Eight wins over Dartmouth and Brown...