Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Catliff, a top Harvard soccer player who risked his NCAA eligibility this past weekend by playing in a Canadian national tournament, returned to Cambridge yesterday still free to play for the Crimson...
Catliff endangered his collegiate career by playing with his club team, the Kerrisdale Road Runners of British Columbia, for the Canadian Youth Championship. NCAA rules state than an athlete may not play for another team without forfeiting his right to play for his college team...
Though the competition was not a direct qualifier, a member of the Canadian Olympic Committee was planning to attend to watch Catliff play. Said Miller, "Catliff has a good chance of being observed...
Miller argued that the Canadian system of qualification is different, not involving one specific event. Instead, evaluations are made of a player's ability over a period of time, she said...
...game took shape on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Montreal in 1979 when two Canadian journalists, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, challenged each other to a game of Scrabble. Then, Haney recalls, a light bulb went on over his head: "Why don't we invent a game?" Less than an hour later they had designed the basic structure. Devising the questions, however, took much obsessive poring over almanacs, encyclopedias and old newspapers. After nearly two years of research, the group, which included Haney's brother John, a retired hockey player, settled on 6,000 queries...