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Word: contests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leverett, second only to K-House in Harvard tackle football, stomped on the Yalies, 16-0. Bunny Bob Holz set the tone of the contest by scoring on the second offensive play of the match. Player-coach Bill Lewis returned a short punt to give Leverett six more points and Tony Rothchild finished off the blue and white with a 37-yd. field goal in the third quarter...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Harvard Houses Sweep Yale Teams In Tackle Football | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

Under normal circumstances, this would be a nothing game, a contest for supremacy between the two bottom teams in the Ivy League soccer ranks. But today's soccer game pits Harvard against Yale and as forward Walter Diaz says, "This game is so important, it's like making a whole season...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Booters Open THE WEEKEND; Diaz Brothers Meet in Season Finale | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

Brown already holds three Harvard records, two of them game marks he set last year in his aerial bombardment of Penn. In that contest he passed for 349 yards, while accumulating 375 yards total offense. In addition, Brown broke Kubacki's career passing record against Brown two weeks...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Brown Closes In On Passing Marks, May Pass Kubacki | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

...contest marked the third straight Saturday in which the Crimson's fate had come down to the final 30 seconds, but, for once, the mad, capricious script left Harvard on top. The Crimson now stands 4-3-1, 2-3-1 Ivy, while Penn falls...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Survives Quaker Scare, 17-13 | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...that the Soviet hand isn't there," said a State Department aide about the latest unrest, "but we have no evidence. This isn't Afghanistan [where a military coup brought a pro-Moscow regime to power]. They don't want to contest us on this issue." The Russians, in fact, were suffering more immediately from the oilworkers' strike than the West was. While the Shah's allies worried about the potential future loss of oil exports, a vital pipeline that supplies 10 billion cubic meters per year of Iranian natural gas to military installations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Another Crisis for the Shah | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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