Word: crownings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brown is the two-time defending Ivy champ, but virtually everyone in the league expects the Crimson to snag the crown it last won in 1981--the year five freshmen burst on to the Crimson scene and put Harvard on a four-year course to greatness...
...league, Cornell, 3-3, lost to Dartmouth for the fifth straight year and came within seconds of losing at Brown. So is it little wonder that the squad that lost 31 lettermen from the 1982 Ivy championship squad was one of the biggest surprises to win a league crown? Actually, the team settled for its second straight tie for the title, but a 16-7 victory over Yale in the 100th meeting between the two schools erased any pain that the tie caused...
...sailing team came out of nowhere, filled with nobodies and beat everybody to cop the 1983 crown. "We lost everyone from the year before," Coach Mike Horn says. "We really surprised ourselves...
...pretty surprised itself, when Navy and Columbia beat the Crimson on successive days. The defeat at Navy broke a 32-meet winning streak and the loss at Columbia dropped Harvard's seven-year mark to 58-3. But somehow, the aquamen managed to tie for the Eastern league crown and, in top form by season's end, eked out their sixth consecutive Eastern Seaboard title...
...National runners-up the year before, the men's hockey team never demonstrated the power of 1982-1983, but still managed a tie with Cornell for the league crown...