Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, Princeton demolished Harvard's hopes for the Ancient Eight crown. Seeking revenge, Harvard fought the Tigers hard to the end this year, only to lose the deciding final relay by 0.04 seconds. Adding insult to injury, the traditionally hapless Cornell team stunned the aquamen, in another last-relay victory...
...Brown championship leaves the Crimson as the only Ivy squad never to have won a league crown. Incidentally, the last three Ivy champs have finished with 10-4 league marks. Final Regular Season Statistics...
...NOTEBOOK: Two cagers, Phillips (11.2 p.p.g.) and Webster (11.3 p.p.g.) entered the contest in a race for the team's scoring leadership. Webster copped the crown by scoring 18 on the evening while Phillips recorded just 17...After averaging only 60.8 points per game going into the weekend, Harvard hit a scoring bonanza with 78 points Friday night and 70 Saturday...Dudley had four blocked shots on the evening...Four of the five Eli starters finished the contest with four personal fouls. Meanwhile, not one Crimson cager had more than three...Webster went six for six from the charity stripe...
...treated for viral pneumonia at the 500-bed facility in 1973. Lyndon Johnson had his gall bladder excised at the hospital in 1965 then proudly displayed his scar to anyone who cared to see it. Bethesda, in the northwest outskirts of Washington, D.C., is also a jewel in the crown of the U.S. military health care system, whose 688 facilities care for the nation's wounded in time of war. But presidential patronage notwithstanding, the massive system, and Bethesda in particular, has been sorely wounded in recent weeks and may be slow to recover from the strange case of Commander...
...approach the final weekend of the season, the Ivy League men's basketball race is one of the closest in years. Three teams--Cornell (9-3), Brown (8-4), and Penn (6-5)--still have mathematical shots at the crown, even though it would take a miracle for the Quakers to snare their second title...