Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the big, three-sided trophy by Cartier was inaugurated by the Thoroughbred Racing Association in 1950, only nine horses, from Sir Barton in 1919 to Citation in 1948, had earned the right to have their names engraved on the emblem of the Triple Crown of American racing. After Citation, 25 long years passed before Secretariat added another name to that most select circle, and through the long drought, one question bedeviled breeders, owners, trainers and bettors alike: Why were there no Triple Crown champions...
...women's track teem cops the Greater Boston Championships crown...
...backstroke, diver Steve Schramm, advancing to national competition after hitting his head on the board in practice before the qualifying rounds, and Bobby Hackett, triumphing at the NCAAs in the face of a team let-down were just a few of the jewels in the Harvard crown...
April 28, 1979--Despite only club-status funding, the Harvard volleyball team upends Northeastern to take the New England crown...
...could become the first jockey ever to win Triple Crown championships on both sides of the Atlantic, but the shy young man remains as modest as ever. "]I came over, I got some nice horses and I won some races...