Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senior Bobby Carr, who set a new single-season scoring record for Harvard defensemen with 28 points, captured berths on both the All-Ivy and All-Eastern second teams. He also received the John Tudor Memorial Cup as Harvard's most valuable player...
...spectacular achievement. For Harvard, however, it was another blow in a year of disasters. Their first eight had been declared ineligible for the Henley Regatta. The Grand Challenge Cup Committee had excluded the first boat because of a rule that a crew must have an amatuer coach during its last six weeks of training...
...four of the British crews had lost in the opening races, in the greatest national tragedy since Victoria's death. Foreign possession of the Challenge Cup was unavoidable, but there was now a solid chance that, for the first time, the colonies might win it. In addition to the young Harvards, the "old Harvards"--the Union Boat Club of Boston--had won its first race...
...formation of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) gave collegiate track the biggest boost it would ever get--it held its first meet that year at Saratoga, New York, offering a huge silver cup as a trophy to the team winning the most IC4A titles between then...
...winning the meet for six straight years, and 10 times in all in the next 12. Harvard's winning streak was broken only in 1887 and 1889--distastefully, by Yale. In the '89--13 years after the first IC4A meet--Harvard was given permanent possession of the silver trophy cup--recognizing the Crimson as the country's first intercollegiate track power...