Word: crowning
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Parity did not produce great things, however. The highlight of the Crimson's season came in the final game on the regular-season slate. Harvard defeated St. Lawrence, 6-5, in Canton, N.Y. to capture the regular-season crown...
Harvard is that anxious to begin the 1988-89 season. Who wouldn't be? With the return of Olympians Lane MacDonald and Allen Bourbeau, along with 18 other lettermen, opposing ECAC coaches have tabbed the Crimson as the pre-season favorite to capture the league crown. The current national polls have Harvard ranked fourth...
...games to equal the 1986 Crimson team's 3-7 record. A 2-8 record would give Harvard its worst record since 1950, when the Crimson went 1-7. All Penn (8-0 overall, 5-0 Ivy) has to do to earn at least a share of the league crown is to win one of its final two contests...
Dartmouth (5-1), the other leading contender for the crown, beat Columbia, 2-1, Saturday, in what was arguably the most challenging game left on its schedule. The Big Green faces Brown Saturday, its final stumbling block en route to a share of the league crown...
...hundred years ago, when the U.S. was about to elect its first president, the fledgling nation seriously considered enthroning a king--their choice for the crown was George Washington. The general refused the offer, but he did admit that "the utility;--nay necessity" of such a powerful figurehead might one day arrive...