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...athletics in American colleges and universities has increased by over 400 percent. Harvard’s teams alone can attest to the popularity and prominence of female athletes (just ask the reigning Ivy League women’s basketball champions or the women’s hockey team, which is headed to the Eastern College Athletic Conference semifinals this weekend). Although not without its critics, Title IX was an overwhelmingly positive step toward a more egalitarian and exciting athletic landscape. Orleans was particularly well-known for placing an utmost priority on cultivating the “student?...
ITHACA, N.Y.—A desperate Cornell team skated faster, hit harder, and produced more quality scoring chances. But at the end of the game, it was the No. 20 Harvard men’s hockey team that came out on top, stealing one away from the Big Red, 3-1, in the regular-season finale Saturday night at Lynah Rink.Though the Crimson (14-11-4, 12-7-3 ECAC) and the Big Red (14-12-3, 12-9-1) entered the game tied for third place with Union in the conference standings, Harvard’s victory secured...
HAMILTON, N.Y.—The ECAC standings being what they were, the Harvard men’s hockey team knew it would most likely have to avoid a loss in its last weekend of the season, and that in order to do so, it would have to play mistake-free hockey.Halfway through its road trip, the Crimson had achieved only one of these two objectives. Harvard managed to remain undefeated in the home stretch of its season by skating to a 3-3 tie with Colgate, but it did so in a somewhat sloppy performance marked by several...
...their team, their fans were tremendous, their students were terrific,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “They had the place packed and rockin’ and their team fed off that and away it went.” Normally known for its intense hockey crowds where dead fish is thrown onto Harvard hockey players during lineup introductions, the Big Red basketball faithful were raucous and loud the whole way though, cheering for its home squad while jeering the Crimson players. Every time that Harvard sophomore Jeremy Lin touched the ball, for example, chants...
...wasn’t the easiest of victories for the No. 1 Harvard women’s hockey team, but it was an important one. The Crimson (29-1-0) defeated Cornell (12-19-1), 4-2, Saturday evening at Bright Hockey Center to sweep the conference quarterfinal series and punch its ticket to the ECAC semifinals.“It was a battle, we knew it was going to be a battle,” junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt said. “We knew we had to come out hard.”Junior Sarah Wilson scored...