Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because Yale should not prove to be a factor, the Harvard-Princeton clash should be a classic duel befitting the two best lightweight crews in the East. The Crimson will be out to avenge a loss to the Tigers last year that snapped Harvard's 28-race win streak extending over five years...
...opening game of the twinbill saw a superb pitching duel between Harvard's Mike O'Malley and Cornell's Steve "The Hammer" Hamrick...
Some would have called yesterday's Harvard-MIT baseball game a pitchers' duel, others would have called it boring. The two squads combined for six hits (three singles apiece) as the Crimson yawned its way to a 3-1 victory...
From there on it was a duel between Royal and Don Driscoll, who was working his first game since a disastrous spring trip where he lost his two starts by wide margins. But yesterday, Driscoll was back to his form of last season when he was 5-1 with a 1.67 ERA before his injury...
None of these movies approach the tense excellence of what may be the all-time best-of-breed: Director Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), in which Dennis Weaver plays a peaceable salesman hurrying to a meeting through rugged desert country and incurring the psychopathic rage of a truck driver by passing him on a hill. His desperate efforts to avoid murder by collision with a relentless foe, whose face neither he nor the audience ever glimpses, is an unforgettable exercise in the action-suspense category...