Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Bruins figured it, they had no business being in New York. They should have won the Stanley Cup days before-on home ice before home-town fans-but the feisty New York Rangers had engineered a surprising upset. Embarrassed to have to hit the road again before they could wind up the playoffs, the Bruins wasted no time mauling the Rangers for their second National Hockey League championship in three years...
Immediately after the main event. Kirkland "A" boat rowers retired to the house of Master Arthur Smithies to drink champagne out of the Aggasiz Cup, symbol of intramural rowing supremacy at Harvard, while Kirkland's "B" boat members, less joyful, rowed the shell back to Weld Boat House...
...beaten Harvard and in the process sprinted away with a much bigger prize--the Eastern varsity heavyweight rowing championship. However, Harvard boats overpowered the opposition in the second boat and freshman divisions to take two out of three of the heavyweight titles and capture for Harvard the Rowe Cup symbolic of heavyweight supremacy in the East...
...victory by Northeastern which was seeded third, marked the first time in 12 years that a crew other than the Adams Cup trio of Navy, Penn and Harvard had taken the title...
Navy, who as defending champion and second seed, was again supposed to battle first ranked Harvard and Penn for the championship in a replay of last week's Adams Cup won by Harvard, failed to make the finals when stroke Chuck Munns caught a crab with 200 meters remaining and Cornell and Wisconsin passed the Middies who were trying to regain momentum. Cornell and Wisconsin finished fourth and sixth respectively in the finals...