Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shifty Bobby Rousseau, scoreless in his last 22 games against Boston, connected for a pair of third period goals Tuesday night and rallied the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory in the fifth game of their National Hockey League Stanley Cup championship series against the Bruins. The victory left the Rangers trailing the best-of-seven series, 3-2, with game six scheduled for Thursday night in New York...
With the treasured Stanley Cup waiting to be presented, the Bruins carried a 2-1 lead into the final 20 minutes as they tried for the clincher on their home ice. But the Rangers, who skated 89 seconds near the end of the second period with two men in the penalty box, would not be denied. Rousseau tied the score at 2:54 when his shot dribbled through the pads of goalie Ed Johnston, who played another brilliant game in the Boston nets...
...third of the race, and as Midshipman second-class Charles Munns strained mightily at his oar, Navy began to move on the Crimson shell. Then, Harvard cox Dave Weinberg called for power, and his boat responded with a smooth, explosive spring, that reopened the margin and won the Adams Cup Saturday--for the first time since 1968 by a little more than a length...
...only took six strokes for Harvard to brush aside any wild ideas that Princeton really was going to make a serious challenge for the Goldthwait Cup...
...Henry Hardy and Terry Valenzuela of Adams House) ended up upside down. Apologists blamed the officials' launch for causing the spills, but cooler heads pointed to a basic instability of design. The crew of the Water Bedlam was somewhat compensated for their pains by walking off with the "Cholera Cup," awarded to the first contestant to fall in the Charles, and live. When asked his first reaction upon hitting the water, one of the Queen's crewmen replied," I shut my mouth,...fast...