Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soccer team's rout of Yale, the basketball team's surprising successes, the destruction of the Ivy League by the hockey team, the squash team's near miss against Yale, and the consistent wins of the track team. The spring saw one success after another by the Eastern championship baseball and tennis teams, Joel Landau's astounding victories in leading the track team to the rout over Yale, and the lightweight crew's domination of the East and subsequent invitation to Henley. It is unfortunate that such a successful spring be terminated by the University's dropping...
...sextet won the Ivy League and eventually went to Minneapolis, it did not live up to its advance notices. In such games as the 5-4 loss to Northeastern and the 4-4 tie with Dartmouth, the Crimson played slow, sloppy hockey and looked like anything but a championship team. Even in most of its wins, many Watson Rink fans had the feeling that the sextet was playing only as hard as it needed to and no harder. Nevertheless, the Crimson did compile a 16 and 3 record, Captain Bob Cleary did lead the nation in scoring and Bob Owen...
...class limit: 123½ Ibs.) Charles Vinci, a squat Ohio steelworker who has been recently unemployed, had been forced to trade valuable training time for job hunting, and was worn out. Middle-Heavyweight (198½ Ibs.) Dave Sheppard, the handsome health-food salesman who claims an unofficial world eating championship (five meals daily with snacks in between), was weak from dieting...
...half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.
Hoffman commented on the "remarkable" records of all three Harvard lightweight crews this spring. All three Crimson eights were victorious in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges championship sprints last Saturday...