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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pond has melted by now (the modern indoor ice rink has long since replaced it), but as Ivy League hockey nears the 100th anniversary of the first Brown-Harvard ice duel, what was then a friendly game of ice polo has emerged as one of the most successful NCAA programs in the Ivies...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Ivy League Hockey: A Long and Winding Road | 4/28/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps more remarkable than the Harvard blowout was the fact that Adelphi kept the game close for a period. After 15 minutes of play, the two teams looked as evenly matched as a pair of drunken Western gunslingers preparing to duel...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Traveling in Two Directions | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

Yesterday at Soldiers Field, Baxter and freshmen Cody Weston and Zach Hope combined to hold Boston University to three hits as the Crimson edged the Terriers, 3-2, in a fierce pitcher's duel...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Batsmen Put Terriers in Dog House, 3-2 | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

Captain Peter Holmes concluded his illustrious career on the mats with a fourth-place finish in the 167-lb. division. Holmes faced Cornell's Andy Rice in a much-anticipated semifinal match--the two tied 1-1 in their duel earlier this year. Neither could score a point until Rice took. Holmes down and levelled the quick pin during the second period. This was only the second time in his collegiate career that Holmes was pinned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Wrap | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...Bush-Rather match (otherwise the merest blip in the history of a presidential campaign) derived from Rather's departure from the ritual expectations: the network news star addressing the Vice President of the U.S. is expected to be earnest and anchormanly but not nerved up for a duel, an affair of honor. People do not expect the anchorman to behave like a samurai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Kingdom of Television | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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