Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard, last year's Ivy League champion, dropped out of the title race two weeks ago after losing to Princeton. The Crimson is in position to influence who wears the crown. Harvard will face the University of Pennsylvania (5-0 Ivy League) next Saturday in Philadelphia...
...overall, 4-1-1 Ivy League) last traveled to Philadelphia--in November 1986--the top-of-the-Ivy Crimson was shocked 3-0 by a Quaker team that had not won a league contest all season. The loss ended Harvard's bid for an Ancient Eight title, handing the crown to Yale...
...Harvard had finished first or second in the tournament, it would have qualified for the finals and a chance to advance to national competition. The Crimson captured the national crown four years...
...dynasties continued as Yale took the women's title for the third straight year with 39 points, and Dartmouth claimed its fifth consecutive men's crown with 26 points...
...hair. Magic Johnson was injured late in the season and never regained his brilliance in the post-season. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar looked like a living embodiement of Stepen Foster's "Old Folks at Home." Somehow, the Lakers repeated as NBA champion. Riley, after all, had guaranteed a second crown. But he made no such prediction this year...