Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trip itself will be a rather engaging spectacle. Not long ago, Hirohito confessed that he still kept an old Paris Metro ticket as a memento of the freest, happiest days of his life. In 1921, when he was Crown Prince, Hirohito boarded the battleship Katori for a six-month tour of Europe. His jet flight this week will get him there in 15 hours, instead of the 65 days it took the lumbering Katori to reach England. Accompanied by the Empress Nagako, 68, who has never been abroad, Hirohito will visit seven European countries...
Penn coach Jim Tuppeny remembers that loss, and apparently, he will consider Harvard the Ivy champions until his runners are able to win a Hep crown...
This fall, defending its Ivy league title will be more difficult for Harvard than it was last year. Both Penn and Brown are loaded with lettermen and are expected to battle Harvard for the crown...
...several other squads (Harvard had the leading win percentage in the Ivy League last year), Harvard's baseball squad will be faced with a tough act to follow. The Crimson not only won the Greater Boston League title, the Eastern League title, 26 games, and the NCAA District I crown, it played a professional brand of ball that won praise and respect in all aspects of the game. Sound pitching, fielding, hitting, running, and strategy created more than a successful squad. It produced a team that truly deserved to rank with the best in the nation at the Omaha World...
...hour apart around the one-mile clay track. This year only four of the nine entries figured to have a chance of capturing the coveted trophy and top prize of $64,885 out of the $129,770 total purse. Two of the early favorites were Hoot Speed and Speedy Crown, half-brothers sired by the co-holder of the mile world record, Speedy Scot. Hoot Speed was supposed to have the necessary endurance but was unlucky in his post position. Speedy Crown had already won eight of ten races this year -including two wins over Hoot Speed...