Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, Harvard wrapped up the regular-season crown two weeks before the ECAC Tournament. Then, on the last day of regular-season action, the team lost its leading scorer--Scott Fusco--to a shoulder injury...
...lack of anything better to do, Harvard--which has already wrapped up home ice for the ECAC playoffs--will now try to win the ECAC regular-season paper crown. Four games left. Might as well...
...Harvard women's team, undefeated in Ivy competition, will battle Princeton following the men's meet. The Tigers are a major obstacle in the team's quest for a third-straight Ivy crown...
...cousins, who deny any rivalry, will have to struggle if they want the top job. The last Ford to hold it, Henry II, who stepped down in 1980, said that the company would have "no crown princes." Since Henry's death last September, his younger brother William Sr., 62, has been the only family voice on the board...
...ideal of male perfection. Many white men find it disturbing that a black might best fulfill that ideal (and might collect the accompanying glamour and money). Thus, after Jack Johnson captured the heavyweight championship in 1908, the urgent search began for a "great white hope" to reclaim the crown. Some 60 years later, when no white fighter could manage to win the title in the ring, whites took solace in a cinematic champ, Rocky. The current pro football season cast up another unsettling black breakthrough. Black quarterbacks for the first time started on three pro teams: Randall Cunningham...