Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson came in seeking a modicum of revenge for their earlier nine-stroke defeat at the hands of the Tigers in the Ivy League championship. At one point the linksmen were nurturing a nine-stroke lead and, with six out of seven players in the clubhouse, Harvard was still clinging to a one-stroke edge...
Nevertheless, Greis cannot compete with men in terms of distance so she has to rely on the lyrical accuracy of her swing. She routinely plays from the men's championship tees, saying "If I'm going to play with them, I have to play their game." From the men's tees on the Harvard linksters' home course, the Country Club in Brookline, there are seven holes which are impossible for her to reach in regulation. "It's like I'm playing a par 78," says Greis, which puts into perspective her methodical rounds in the low eighties...
Greis had acquired quite a load of silverware since she took up the game six years ago. She was the Massachusetts Girls' Champion in 1975 and finished as runner-up in the state Schoolgirl Championship three times...
...Crimson stickmen travel to Ithaca today to face the top-ranked Cornell laxmen. Harvard has won its last two games while the home team has taken twenty straight, including last Spring's NCAA championship game...
...people had reason to rejoice. It was Passover week, when families celebrate the flight from Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. The populace also had a grand secular occasion to celebrate: the upset victory (78 to 77) of a Tel Aviv basketball team over Italy in the European championship at Belgrade...