Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are only two things that can still happen in the race for the 1984 Ivy League crown...
Either the University of Pennsylvania, which has already clinched a tie for its third straight Ancient Eight title, will win the vaunted crown outright, or the Harvard squad, also looking for a third straight title of its own, will tie the Quakers...
...Quakers got a second, successful field goal attempt, a 23-21 victory and a piece of the league crown...
More than that, the self-styled crown prince agitated for a system of conservative dictatorship far removed from the intellectual socialism of his elders. Associated with a group of young toughs and regarded in some quarters as a lawless power broker, Sanjay hung around his doting mother like a dark and menacing shadow. As Indian Essayist Ved Mehta wrote in A Family Affair, "Rightly or wrongly, Sanjay was seen as representing the ruthless side of his mother...
...encore in 1978, Cauthen, with a little help from a horse named Affirmed, went on to become the youngest rider ever to win the Triple Crown. Some wondered aloud whether his nerve and savvy, his seeming oneness with the animal he rode, would make him the greatest jockey in the world...