Word: champion
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Later that afternoon at Dartmouth's Memorial Field, the Big Green football team was a mean, lean fighting machine. The defending Ivy champion Crimson committed six turnovers and fell, 38-7. Harvard's chances of finshing on top of the Ivy standings for the second year in a row were slim even before the game began...
...women's lacrosse team, undefeated after 11 games, edged defending national champion Temple, 5-4. Char Joslin scored a hat trick, and the Crimson defense was as stingy as Mr. Magoo. Harvard remained the only unbeaten team in the nation...
Penn State is the NCAA champion...
...Wesbrook women, Lee Blessing says in his haunting off-Broadway play Eleemosynary, are determined to be exceptional. The grandmother is a New Age visionary, the mother a science scholar blessed (and cursed) with total recall, the child a national champion speller who not only knows the shape of words but revels in their layers of meaning. (The play's coy title is a spelling-bee word meaning charitable.) Yet for all their brains, beguiling eccentricity and epic betrayal, the women are touchingly ordinary in matters of the heart. Every woman, and everyone who knows and loves one, will recognize...
Harvard will be making its secondstraight appearance in the NCAA semis. Last year the Crimson fell to eventual champion Temple...