Word: flukes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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VERMONT-BOSTON UNIVERSITY--The Catamounts won't amount to much away from the cozy confines of their own rink and the Terriers want another game with Harvard to prove the Beanpot wasn't a fluke. Boston University 6, Vermont...
...chance against the Crimson this year. They had beaten Penn 6-3 three weeks ago, while Harvard defeated Penn by only 5-4 on Sunday. But the top Quaker requetmen had not played against Yale and, as was proven yesterday, the Bulldog victory over Penn was merely a fluke...
...quiet but confident Harvard junior doesn't look at his Millrose win as a fluke and wants to remain unbeaten on the season. He doesn't accept the various excuses Stones gave after his defeat either...
...Harvard by something of a fluke. A Yale-sponsored program called the Transitional Year, designed to channel minority students into Ivy League schools, contacted him when he was in high school. Sam has never been able to figure out how they got his name, but since they did--and, he jokes, since his high school principal advised him against it--he decided to make the big trip to the alien East, while most of his friends went off to find jobs or fight in Vietnam...
...team turned in the Crimson's best performance of the day, sparked by a spectacular 60-yard breakaway run by freshman Barkley Jones. Wagner, in second game of the day, followed with his second conversion. But Princeton quickly tallied on two fluke plays--helped, a Harvard player said afterwards, by questionable officiating--and put the game out of reach...