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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, in eight of the cagers' 16 losses, their free throw deficit has been more than the margin of defeat...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Those Charity Stripe Blues | 3/1/1985 | See Source »

What helped the visitors was a one-for-13 performance from the floor by Penn's Perry Bromwell, who last Friday hit an 18-ft, jumper with four seconds to go to defeat Harvard...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Princeton Gives Cagers New Hope | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

That two-point loss Friday night and subsequent seven-point defeat at the hands of Princeton Saturday night has forced the Crimson to change the way it spells postseason...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Princeton Gives Cagers New Hope | 2/27/1985 | See Source »

...measure's defeat last night would have prohibited the Council from considering similar proposals for the next two years without approval from the Planning Board...

Author: By Michael E. Joachim, | Title: City Council Tables Linkage Proposals, Allows Controversial Debate to Continue | 2/26/1985 | See Source »

...four of the first nine games. "Get the kid a doctor," whispered one expert spectator. "He looks like he's in shock." But Kasparov steadied and held the champion through a record 17 straight draws, until Karpov won his fifth game. Though Kasparov now teetered just one lapse from defeat, he somehow slowly captured the psychological momentum. Four draws later he won his first game. But as the strategy of stasis wore on, records, and bored spectators, fell by the wayside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Longest Drawn-Out Draw Ever | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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