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With the fall season of Straus Cup competition now completed, Quincy House holds a slim lead over Winthrop and defending champion Kirkland. Quincy has amassed 451 points, with three of the seven fall championships to its credit. Winthrop, also with three team titles, follows with 434, and Kirkland rounds out the top three...
...Quincy should retain its lead at the end of the year, it would mark Q-World's first Straus Cup ever. Kirkland is looking to take home the cup for a record 18th time. Eliot and Winthrop are tied for second in overall Straus championships, having each carried off seven intramural trophies since the competition began in 1935. When Kirkland topped Winthrop in the final standings last year, it broke a four-year winning streak for the Thropsters...
...last year's race for the Straus Cup, Kirkland mounted a big lead during the fall season with 472 points to Winthrop's 422 and Quincy's 376. Winthrop chipped away at the lead throughout the year, but K-House was able to hang on for the crown...
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...highlight of the Royals' legacy was a silver medal in the 16-and-under United States Championship and a fourth in the North American Championships in Vancouver in 1976. Duggan's personal peak came two years later, when after helping the Washington Select Team to the Western Region Cup, he narrowly missed making the Junior National Team despite a strong showing at the Western Regional Team's Training Camp in Colorado Springs...