Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Warning for Princeton, Yale and Cornell: There's another team making a run at the Ivy League wrestling championship this year. And anyone who witnessed the 33-9 drubbing of Dartmouth at the IAB Saturday knows who that team is. It's Harvard...
...Rooney is a patient man. In the 42 years since he founded the Pittsburgh Steelers, Rooney has enjoyed only eleven seasons in which his team won more games than it lost. The Steelers have not earned a single N.F.L. championship. No other pro football team that has been around so long has produced so little. But for Rooney, now 73, success seems finally to have arrived. The Steelers are the new champions of the American Conference, and they are heading into Sunday's Super Bowl with an excellent chance to beat the Minnesota Vikings...
...together the best defense in football. The Steelers' front four, the most ferocious in the league, flattened quarterbacks 52 times this season with their savage pass rush. The team's linebackers, led by bruising Jack Ham, are almost as intimidating. Against the powerful Raiders in the A.F.C. championship game, Pittsburgh yielded only 29 yds. in 21 running plays...
...their final match against the Big Red last year, Harvard's skaters earned a 7-4 victory at Lynah Rink in Ithaca, dealing Cornell its first home Ivy loss in 44 games. The Crimson went on to win its first Ivy championship since 1963, breaking an eight-year Cornell stranglehold...
Petrovek spent last summer working at a hockey camp. When he returned this fall he was determined to take over the starting goalie position, a position many felt kept the Crimson from winning the national championship last spring...