Word: championship
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Russell's tone is expansive and abrasive. His maniacal invention comes to full flower like an orchid in a hothouse. When Tommy (The Who's Roger Daitrey) meets the Pinball Wizard (Elton John) in a championship match, Russell mounts it on a gilded stage before thousands of fans. The Wizard looks like a character from the other side of an electronic looking glass. Shirt full of glitter, several pairs of suspenders holding up his pants, he perches in front of his pinball machine on seven-story platform shoes, singing Pinball Wizard ("That deaf, dumb and blind kid/ Sure...
Every crew is out to demolish the Crimson's national championship standing and, as captain Blair Brooks put it, "the big bad guys from the East." But if the desire for vengeance could shake the earth, three crews which Harvard will face on April 5th would rate highest on the Richter scale...
Chuck Wepner, the classic fall guy, managed to stand up for 14 bloody rounds with Muhammad Ale last night, until the relaxed world heavyweight champion calmly decked him with 19 seconds left in the final stanza of the world championship bout in Cleveland, Ohio...
Senior Driscoll will be another key man in the pitching rotation. Last year he pitched Harvard to the Eastern crown and into the World Series as he beat Princeton, 5-3, in the Eastern title playoff and then demolished New Hampshire, 6-0, in the NCAA District I championship game...
...varsity decimated Yale: the elated Harvard eight had to wait a stunning 71 seconds for the Elis to dribble across the finish line. Later that month, the squad sprinted to a narrow victory over Wisconsin and set another course record in Washington, invalidating all other claims to the national championship title...