Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donald Davis Crown Point...
...glitches. The Israeli government backed out at the last moment, claiming that one of the Arab participants, Harvard Professor and noted Palestinian Author Walid Khalidi, was a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Khalidi denied it. The Syrians and the Jordanians pointedly ignored each other, and Jordanian Crown Prince Hassan ibn Talal refused to accept direct questions from the unofficial Israeli participants. But nobody walked out, not even when the Israeli scholars were speaking...
...upsets of the past will be on everyone's mind this afternoon. A share of the Ivy title (with the winner of the Penn-Dartmouth game) or an outright crown (if the Green and Quakers tie) is on the line for Harvard. But more important, the Crimson hopes the 100th Game will be the climax of a successful 10-game season, and not a one-game failure of a season that overshadows the other nine-tenths...
Entering the final week of the season, this year's Crimson stands in far better shape than the 1982 team did. A Harvard victory in The 100th Game assures the Crimson at least a share of the league crown, and if Penn and Dartmouth tie in Philadelphia, Harvard would take home its first outright championship since...
...even with the injuries, defense is the main reason the Crimson holds a good chance of a winning a share of the crown. In nine games. Harvard has yielded an average of just 13 points per outing. Since the return of Nolan and other defenders in the Princeton game the Crimson has shut down the powerful attacks of Brown, Holy Cross and Penn...