Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That means two wins in their final four games would assure the Quakers of at least a tie for their 10th Ivy crown in the last 17 years and their first in three years...
With four games remaining to go in the race for the covered Ancient Eight crown. Penn now holds an 8-2 Ivy mark, Harvard and Cornell are deadlocked...
When a bench-clearing brawl broke out with 21 seconds left in Harvard 52-45 loss to Princeton, it spelled the dismal end to any realistic championship hopes. Harvard will not win the Ivy crown for the 83rd straight year...
...feel bad for the team," said Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin, whose squad many thought would challenge seriously for the league crown. "They've accomplished so much, and then to have to suffer through this, it just diesn't seem fair...
When the triennial match for the world chess championship opened last September, excitement ran high. Enthusiasts from all over the Soviet Union and around the world flocked to Moscow's House of Trade Unions to watch Anatoli Karpov, 33, champion since 1975, defend his crown against fellow Soviet Citizen Gary Kasparov, 21, the youngest person ever to compete in a title match. Great, even unprecedented chess was predicted. But no one expected the record-breaking outcome: the longest drawn-out draw in championship history and, in a sport richly littered with strange events, probably the most controversial referee's ruling...