Word: championed
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Fellow Ivy defending champion Yale—who defeated the Crimson in the season-ending playoff to determine the recipient of the automatic NCAA bid—has added a talented freshman class to a squad that already possesses several accomplished returning players...
...Penn, the perennial champion who just missed out on getting a piece of the league title last season, has brought in four freshmen in an effort to regain its place atop the Ancient Eight standings...
Unranked Harvard became the first team to hold Maryland to one goal or less since national champion Wake Forest in the 2004 NCAA semifinals...
WORCESTER, Mass.—Fitton Field wasn’t close to full on Saturday, with only 8,238 on hand to watch the host Holy Cross Crusaders take on the defending Ivy champion Harvard Crimson. So the graduated members of last year’s team had no trouble finding seats right on the 50-yard line, about eight rows up behind the Harvard bench...
...story of a little French crocodile smashing its way onto the U.S. apparel scene is a fashion legend. René Lacoste, a famous French tennis champion nicknamed the Alligator (le Crocodile in French) by the American press because he "never let go of his prey," grew tired of the starched, long-sleeved shirts that players wore during the 1920s. He designed a breathable, short-sleeved polo for himself, and soon for his tennis friends too, creating what was to become one of the most famous sportswear companies in France...