Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legendary has been dampened by age and a disciplinarian coach, Claudio Coutinho, who admires the rough and rigidly patterned European style of soccer. The samba drums lugged to Argentina by Brazilian true believers never really caught the rhythm, and Pelé himself, at 37 too old to play championship soccer, and too recently the best player in the world to resign himself to his job as a TV commentator, said miserably during the qualifying round that "Brazil, my beloved Brazil, has only given us reason to cry." He cried too soon, and back in Brazil a despairing construction worker...
...selection of the two as All-Americans marked a successful postscript to Harvard's 1978 baseball season, which saw the Crimson post a 24-10 record and win the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball Championship before being ousted in NCAA post-season play...
Mayotte and Anastoupolo went on to reach the quarterfinal round of the championship, thereby earning All-American status...
Harvard's chances of landing an All-American tennis berth for 1978 were quashed last Friday when senior captain Todd Lundy lost his opening round singles match at the NCAA championships in Athens, Ga., to SMU's Harron Ismaiol, Stanford had earlier defeated UCLA for the team championship, while Stanford's John McEnroe garnered the singles title Monday and UCLA's John Austin and Bruce Nichols won the doubles crown...
...Lundy-Chaikovsky number-one doubles pairing also had a slow start in '78, dropping a string of matches before peaking at Yale, where they defeated the national indoors championship team of Matt Doyle and Cary Leeds in a three-setter...