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Coupled with Friday night's 2-2 tie, the win was enough to give Cornell the three points it needed to clinch the series...
Harvard (18-6, 12-0) is the second team in the nation to clinch a berth in the tournament after Stanford became the first to do so earlier this week. This is the fifth overall Ivy League Championship for the Crimson which has now won a record 24 consecutive Ivy League contests...
...tonight would make the team 12-0 this year in Ivy League play and extend its record Ivy-game winning streak to 24. It would also clinch at least a share of a second-straight Ivy title. With the current streak, the Crimson is on the cusp of achieving something downright legendary, and no one on the team intends to let Yale stop...
...Crimson can clinch a share of the Ivy League title with a victory on Friday. A Harvard win over Yale coupled with a Dartmouth defeat of Brown would give the title to Harvard alone. However, it is likely that Brown will defeat Dartmouth on Friday night setting up a championship showdown the following evening...
DIED. LOUIS MARTIN, 84, influential presidential confidante responsible for bringing black and minority concerns into the corridors of power; in Orange, California. Dubbed "the godfather of black politics," he helped clinch black votes for Kennedy in 1960; persuade Johnson to appoint Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court; advise Carter on minority affairs; and propel the career of Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan...