Word: cinderellas
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...Cinderella Industry. Instead of leading the wobbly W.F.L. to prosperity, though, Larry Csonka had watched the starveling league die midway through its second season. Along with more than 350 other players, he had become a victim of the '70s retrenchment in sport. After a roaring decade of unprecedented growth, professional sport in some ways looks like a Cinderella industry heading toward midnight. Of the 23 teams in the American Basketball Association and World Hockey Association, only one is in the black. "There's no question about it," says Attorney Bob Woolf, who has negotiated hundreds of contracts...
...Harvard soccer team has been hurting of late. The footmen have dropped four of their last five outings, and the hopes of a repeat Cinderella season have pretty well gone by the board...
...Dartmouth comes to hit," said Harvard's no-longer-Cinderella quarterback, Jim Kubacki, Friday. "We're going to hit. I'm expecting a very brutal game...
...Harvard's offense, everybody around knows by now that the Crimson's Cinderella quarterback, Jim Kubacki, is number one in this week's NCAA statistics for total offense. The junior ran for 154 yards and passed for 104 more against Holy Cross, a 258-yard total which has him, at least temporarily, leading every other major college football player...
...Bruins represent a thoroughly uninteresting favorite in the Ivy race, one good reason why they probably won't win it. Candidates for Cinderella team of the year are, in alphabetical order: Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. The inclusion of Columbia was intentional; one victory in the Ivies automatically makes the puny Lions the surprise team of the year. At the other end of the standings, the fact remains the someone, and possibly Harvard, has a good shot for a minor upset...