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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...

Author: By Andy Quigley, | Title: Lights Take on Princeton, Yale for Goldwaite Cup | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

...opening game of the twinbill saw a superb pitching duel between Harvard's Mike O'Malley and Cornell's Steve "The Hammer" Hamrick...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Last-Inning Rally Gives Crimson Nine 6-5 Win Over Cornell for Twinbill Split | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Driscoll Fires 3-Hitter as Harvard Edges MIT | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

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...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Driscoll Fires 3-Hitter as Harvard Edges MIT | 4/18/1974 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New B Movies | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

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