Word: championships
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...hasn't always been that way. In 1942 and 1944, Dartmouth played in national championship games. Even as recently as 1979, Penn went to the Final Four before falling to Magic Johnson and Michigan State. But now, according to league coaches, the Ivy League is unable to compete with the stronger conferences. Ivy teams are invited to play major teams which are looking for easy wins to pad their records...
...Harvard football team was once the finest team in the country. In 1919, the Crimson beat Oregon, 7-6, in the Rose Bowl to capture the national championship...
...closest Ivy League coaches are likely to come to post-season play, according to Reardon, is a championship game between the winner of the Ivy League and the winner of the Colonial League, a group of schools including Bucknell and Holy Cross which model their programs after those of the Ivy League and field teams of comparable talent...
With the Redwood Shores championship already in the bank, Harvard could be considered to have overcome almost all of its most challenging competitors in the nation, except for Navy, Rutgers, and Princeton. This weekend's win over the Tigers was a big addition to the squad's buying power for a national championship...
However, the time for looking beyond opponents is gone, and with four impressive victories under its belt, the Crimson are ready to try and claim its first H-Y-P championship since...