Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having established league superiority by mid-January with an imposing 13-0 ECAC record, the Crimson was able to bide its time for the remainder of the season. Dreams of the national crown it came so close to earning last March played in its head...
Penn State also must be considered a contender for the 1987 crown. Although the Nittany Lions dropped a dual meet to Brown earlier this season, the squad is still a formidable opponent, and especially tough in big meets like Easterns...
Papailias--who last week placed fourth in the Junior Olympics in Orlando, Fla.--captured the individual crown by winning four of her five bouts in the final round. Papailias lost only to teammate Christina Perkin, who placed third in the competition. Linda Ystueta of MIT took second place...
...match, and a share of the Ivy crown, was clinched when number-one Diana Edge disposed of Chris Schutz...
...Knight had it all: an Olympic gold medal, two N.C.A.A. championships and an NIT crown. Then came the 1984-85 season. His basketball team, the Indiana Hoosiers, played under .500 in Big Ten competition for the first time in his 14-year reign as coach. Knight began to unravel. He benched his starters, dismissed his leading rebounder and, in a nationally televised game, he flung a chair across the court to protest the officiating. John Feinstein, a canny Washington Post columnist, focuses on the following season, when Knight veered even closer to the edge. Feinstein has no quarrel with...