Word: doormats
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...first four years, the Crimson was the Ivy League doormat, losing its first 16 Ivy contests. And now this year, after qualifying for the NCAA Championship for the second consecutive year, Harvard won its first contest in national competition...
...when Harvard was bad, it was really bad, losing to weaker teams like Division II Merrimack and this year's Ivy doormat Brown...
Seaver spent the first 10-plus seasons of his 20-year career with the Mets, joining them in 1967 when they were still an expansion doormat. He posted a 16-13 record with a very low earned run average and was named NL rookie of the year...
Penn's fabulous season should also put to rest notions that the Quakers' fabulous success in recent years had been due solely to the coaching genius of Jerry Berndt. Berndt--who turned the Ivy doormat into a powerhouse almost overnight after arriving at Penn--left before this season to coach at Rice. Ed Zubrow, a former assistant to Berndt, took over and produced a season which surpassed even Berndt's finest...
...Students should be students first and athletes second," says Al Paul, athletic director at Columbia, a football doormat in recent years. Like the league's other member schools, Columbia maintains strict admissions policies and financial aid stipulations for undergraduate athletes. "We wouldn't let anyone in who couldn't do the work," Paul says...