Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team went on to make news both on and off the mat as that same League crown was revoked by the Commissioner of the Ivies on a weigh-in technically two weeks after Harvard had supposedly clinched the title. Harvard had handled Columbia, 24-16, but the judgment on Harvard's unmalicious mistake turned that victory into a 22-20 Columbia win, giving the Lions the Ivy crown. The wrestlers pay the ruling little mind, since they did earn the title where it counts, on the mat. Regardless of what the record book says, Harvard was the league champion...
...years at Harvard, Bernal has captured five Ivy League titles and four Eastern Seaboard Championships while compiling a 49-1 record. The swim team has not lost a meet in the past two seasons. Last week, only a day before Bernal's accident, Harvard clinched its fourth straight Eastern crown...
Sontag, 49, has been an eclectic revolutionary ever since the early 1960s, when her dense, demanding essays prompted the New York literary elite to crown her Mary McCarthy's successor as the "Dark Lady of American Letters." In an essay on her 1968 trip to Hanoi, Sontag described herself as "a Western neoradical for whom revolution means not only creating political and economic justice but releasing and validating personal energies of all kinds, including erotic ones." McCarthy, who has long been a stalwart of the anti-Soviet left, was among those who stood up for Sontag after her Solidarity...
Tink Gunnoe '64, star midfielder for the team that tied Dartmouth and Princeton for the Ivy title, recently recalled the 12-6 trouncing of Dartmouth that secured Harvard's share of the crown. "The whole team played in a way that just embarrassed the whole Dartmouth team, "he remembers, calling it a wonderful win." The victory was even sweeter for Gunnoe since his best friend from his Towson, Md. hometown and four-year collegiate foe captained the Indians that year...
...establishes McConnell. 18, as the best college player in the country, and combined with her earlier victories in the National and Junior championships, gives her the first triple crown ever achieved in women's squash in a single year...