Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grey Cup game, to be sure, is no ordinary contest. It is both the Super Bowl of Canadian football and the occasion for a weekend of national celebration. The partying, like Canadian football itself, is wide open...
Billie Jean King was at a Manhattan restaurant presenting the Max-Pax Coffee Cup award for the season's most improved woman pro-tennis player. O.J. Simpson was in another room at the same place receiving the Life Saver the of the Month award for some timely yardage back in September. When the two sports persons bumped into each other the way out, the Juice proposed a match in the offseason. "I always thought tennis was a sissy game, " he said. "Guys that didn't run around with me played tennis. Now I play...
Untamed Play. Millions of other fans from the Yukon to Newfoundland will slow down their own parties long enough to watch the game on TV. They may be joined by American viewers who stumble on the Grey Cup while switching channels to catch American Thanksgiving weekend games...
Occasionally the theatrics are improvised: in the 1957 Grey Cup a halfback racing down the sidelines suddenly fell on his face, tripped by an overwrought fan. For the most part, the play is livelier than in the U.S. because the rules are different. The fields are 10 yds. longer and 12 yds. wider, leaving far more space for the running game. Unlimited motion in the backfield makes it harder to defend against the run. The deeper end zone (25 yds. v. 10 yds. in the U.S.) allows attacking teams a chance to run full-throttle pass patterns from inside...
...freshmen gridders will be trying to retain the Big Three trophy, wrested last year from Yale. Since both Yale and Harvard have already defeated Princeton this season, tomorrow's winner will claim the cup...