Word: elie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After splitting the singles matches 3-3, the contest between the Ivy League contenders narrowed down to the doubles. But here the Crimson quickly asserted its authority. Jim Levy and Gary Reiner, playing at number three, overpowered Eli captain Mike Acosta and Jim Kaufman, 6-1. The outcome was never in doubt. Playing at number one, Dan Waldman and Cliff Adler finished next, beating Jon Thomas and Cary Leeds, 6-4, 6-3 in a strong performance...
...earlier singles matches, Harvard players succumbed to strong Eli net attack and a partisan crowd. In front of about 100 loud, emotional fans, captain and number one player Reiner dropped a three-set match 6-3, 1-6, 7-5 to Leeds...
...number two, Todd Lundy evened the score with a 6-3, 6-3 shellacking of Yale's Tabin. Lundy won the match on the strrength of his lobs which offset the Eli's strong net game...
Yale, on the other hand, is not so lucky. Former Eli mentor Paul Lufkin has left Taylor with only two teams and a varsity squad that has amassed a 2-41-1 record the past two campaigns...
...hated to give them up," admitted Muhammad Ali. But the heavyweight soon kayoed his emotions. Thus on June 9, a pair of 8-oz. gloves and a terrycloth robe will join historical memorabilia like Babe Ruth's bat and Eli Whitney's cotton gin on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "It's a great museum with its little cars and trains," observed the champ, who took time out in the capital to mug with a statue of Washington. "My gloves may be more popular," Ali added, referring to the mitts that in 1974 beat...