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...Quakers haven’t lost an Ivy game since a 28-21 defeat in Cambridge in 2001. The last time Penn lost a league game at home people were too busy worrying about Y2K to notice...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Around the Ivy League | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

Princeton’s only loss of the season came last weekend after Colgate launched a furious second-half comeback to erase a double-digit deficit before holding on for victory. Brown’s sole defeat came at the hands of Harvard, which dug out of a 21-point second-half hole...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Around the Ivy League | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...just the year before, Brown’s defeat of Harvard at the end of the season gave it a share of the Ivy League title with Princeton over the third-place Crimson...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Soccer to Face Brown on Upswing | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...Pale and subdued, he looks as one might expect a man to look who's been billed as a savior but whose party has lost ground in his first shot at power. Acknowledging a long ovation, he can muster only brief, brave smiles; the sting of defeat has stripped him of his usual self-consciousness and he's the more appealing for it. In this sense nothing in his campaign became him like the leaving it, and his speech is magnanimous, though this is a pleasing tradition in Australian politics - in what must have been some parallel universe, Howard gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddest Show in Town | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

Although Cornell (1-3, 1-1 Ivy) held a three-point lead as late as the third quarter, the Crimson (4-0, 2-0) turned to its passing game, some crafty playcalling and a miserly second-half run defense to defeat the Big Red 34-24 at Harvard Stadium on Saturday...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Win Keeps Football Perfect | 10/12/2004 | See Source »

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