Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's baseball and lacrosse teams went to the polls yesterday to elect the captains who must try to put their squads on the championship trail next year. Second baseman Barry Cronin earned the baseball title while Kevin McCall and Bruce Bruckmann will share the honor in lacrosse...
...victory meant more than the Eastern championship, though. Much more. By smashing Wisconsin and Yale in the most competitive regatta in the country, the crew established itself as the fastest collegiate eight in the nation...
Meanwhile, Princeton and Dartmouth both defeated third-ranked UMass in the third heat, to reach the championship round, which was held seven hours later...
However, it was not until Sunday that they were truly pressed, and they responded with a poise found only in a true champion as they exploded past first-seeded Yale and dark-horse Wisconsin to maintain their grip on the Eastern championship. And, for all practical purposes, the national championship as well...
...Esquire Gala Celebrity Mixed Invitational Arm-Wrestling Tourney held last week in Manhattan. While bartenders boosted the spirits of waiting contestants, Actor Peter Boyle, Singer Mac Davis, ex-Housewife Pat Loud and nine others soon joined Tuck in the loser's circle. The women's division championship went to Model Margaux Hemingway, whose vigorous gum-chewing may have distracted her opponents. Hemingway's fiance, Hamburger King Errol Wetson, won the men's title. After the competition, he suggested that Hemingway's training program may have given her an edge. Revealed Wetson: "Margaux beats me every...