Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus began another season of Ivy League wrestling for the Crimson--a squad that has never won an Ivy League title in the more than 30 years of Ivy League wrestling competition. To make matters worse, the loss also marked the first Ivy League defeat for the team's new head coach, Jim Peckham...
...some young talent to make the difference along the way. Two big surprised thus far this year are freshmen Joel San Pedro (118-Ibs.), who won a nifty 12-9 decision against Cornell, and Courtney Henry (126--Lbs.), who is nursing a bad ankle, and suffered a six point defeat Saturday...
...They had electric alarms, but you could defeat them with a screwdriver," he says. "They never discovered...
Coming off its three consecutive league losses, the Crimson (7-9 overall, 2-3 Ivies), traveled to Ithaca, N.Y., Saturday to defeat the Big Red, 60-46, in Barton Hall, and then wrapped up the weekend with a 78-67 victory over the Lions Sunday in Levien Gym in New York...
...other officials. Later that evening she went on television to address the country. Looking drawn, and reading from a prepared text, she expressed her "deep regrets" at "this bloody incident" and promised a full investigation. "In the period before the plebiscite," she said, "attempts to destabilize the government and defeat our democratic aims will intensify. I urge our people to maintain sobriety...