Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Not an excellent team, but a good one. Alan, the Ivy League this year has several excellent teams, and Harvard has yet to play say of them. Pennsylvania for some reason lost to Cornell last week, but remains the top contender for the championship. The Quakers are led by captain...
Green Pastures. First-Termer Romney is in an entirely different situation. He is ambitious, and he will certainly be a serious presidential contender in '64 if he can make a reasonable start on whipping Michigan's problems. But that is an awfully large if. The savage factionalism of...
A strong varsity squash team opens its season today against McGill University at Montreal. McGill is always a major contender for the Canadian championship, but because it is not a regular member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Squash League, it is usually an unknown quantity to American teams.
Harvard's position as a title contender is incredible when its five defeats (two in league play) are taken into account. Coach Bruce Munro's booters are in contention solely because no other Ivy team has managed to put together more than four wins in six outings.
Cassius Clay knocked out Archie Moore exactly when he predicted he would--in the fourth round of their scheduled 12-round heavyweight fight last night. By knocking out Moore, 30 years his senior, Clay became a top contender to meet Sonny Liston after his return bout with Floyd Patterson.