Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water polo club, for example, acquired $200 from the discretionary fund last fall in its bid to capture the Eastern championships. The club, which took the New England title, failed to win the crown, however...
...eight points, to a scrappy Princeton outfit that managed to parlay two firsts by Curt Haydon (he now has won the 500-yd. and 1650-yd. freestyles three years running), innumerable seconds and thirds (usually behind Crimson swimmers), and a couple of secret weapons into a second consecutive Eastern crown...
Harvard and Minnesota never have won the national championship, while B.U. took back-to-back wins in 1971 and '72. The Terriers belted Minnesota, 4-2 for the '71 title. Michigan Tech nabbed the crown in 1962 and in 1965, when the Huskies clobbered Boston College, 8-2, behind the goaltending of Tony Esposito...
...political situation been so uncertain. It was possible that Queen Elizabeth could find herself in an extraordinarily awkward position for a modern constitutional monarch: deciding which party or parties would be best able to command support in the House of Commons and thus run the government. The Crown could even be dragged into an unseemly political row if the Tories tried to cling to power in a way that appeared unfair...
Died. Lawrence (Larry) Joseph Doyle, 87, good-natured second baseman for the old New York Giants between 1907 and 1920; in Saranac Lake. N.Y. Doyle, a popular player whose fans called him "Laughing Larry," won the National League MVP award in 1912 and clinched the batting crown three years later with a .320 average...