Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Championship teams, it is said, are those which come through in the clutch, which win the belly games, which remain cool and perform their appointed duties in the toughest of circumstances. And while it may not yet be the time to start talking championship for the 1978 Harvard tennis team, the Crimson netmen demonstrated that they are a pretty classy bunch by gutting out a 6-3 victory in an exceedingly close match on Columbia's home courts yesterday afternoon...
...good oarsman with a strong sense of rowing himself John expects a certain demeanor in rowing from his oarsmen. I don't think he's comfortable with very different personalities and levels of talent. He has an enjoyable penchant for self-effacing humor which goes well with national championship teams. But John doesn't know how to switch to a crew that may get beat...
...machine just set the NCAA record for consecutive wins (34) with a 16-11 romp Saturday over Johns Hopkins, the number-two squad in the nation. The Ithacans seized the NCAA crown in '76 and '77 and they return five (count 'em, five) All-Americans from last year's championship squad...
...hole Ivy League golf championship held over the Yale Golf Course on Saturday was nothing short of a lollapalooza of the links. The Yale University course is a Scotch surrealist landscape featuring Brobdingnagian bunkers, Cecil B. DeMille greens, and on Saturday Yale's Peter Teravainen and Dartmouth's Joe Henley performed a rendition of "dueling birdies" that could have been choreographed by Busby Berkeley...
Yale's Teravainen won the individual Ivy championship for the second year running with splendid scrambling rounds of 72, 73--145, three strokes ahead of Henley. Teravainen and Henley were all even after 32 holes of play, but the Eli rolled a 30-ft. downhiller for a birdie on the 15th and then eagled the par-five 17th...