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Delaney Smith--who predicted before the season began that this year's league champ would have at least three or four losses--still believes the Ivy race is not over...
...secret around Briggs Cage these days that Harvard wants Dartmouth. That opportunity for revenge may yet come about before the 1985-'86 season draws to a close; the two clubs are likely to meet in a meaningless (as far as declaring the official league champ goes) post-season Ivy Tournament in three weeks time...
...office take in the U.S. and Canada dropped 7%, to $3.75 billion. The number of tickets sold fell 11%, to 1.06 billion. For the first year since 1979, no film returned as much as $100 million to its makers (though Back to the Future, the 1985 champ, should soon reach that goal). Variety Industry Analyst Art Murphy sees this slump as a cyclical phenomenon: the film economy booms, too many films are made to chase the extra dollars, the flurry of competition leads to hasty decisions, then the poor fare drives ticket buyers away. This summer, for example, young viewers...
Realistically, the cagers will have a tough time breaking into the top four in the Ivy League, where defending champ Penn, Columbia, Yale and Cornell are consensus picks to hold sway...
This year, the gridiron Bruins are making major Ivy waves. They almost stunned Yale, the pre-season favorite on the opening weekend, rolled all over Cornell and Princeton and almost topped three-time defending champ Penn...