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When they began to open at the beginning of the past century, America's grande-dame resort hotels, with their hundreds of stately rooms, huge, attentive staffs and sumptuous dining, catered to wealthy families who often traveled with servants, arrived in their own train cars and stayed for months at a time. Times changed. The grande dames began to fall out of favor--and some into disrepair...
...Notre Dame...
...sacrificed her body to head a loose ball past the Hartford keeper for a first-half strike. The goal proved to be the game-winner as Harvard stomped to a 3-0 upset victory and earned the right to face the No. 1 team in the land-Notre Dame-in the Sweet Sixteen...
...least, the Crimson faced an uphill battle against the top-ranked team in the country. Still, on a bitterly cold night in South Bend, Ind., Harvard battled Notre Dame valiantly, denying the Irish any goals in the run of play. If not for two goals on corner kicks, the game might very well have gone scoreless through the end of regulation...
Indeed, the Crimson had advanced further than any Harvard team since 1997. And Notre Dame went on to advance all the way to the tournament quarterfinals. There was certainly no shame in the Crimson's performance...