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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last 57 minutes of the game seemed a mere formality, as Bowdoin never threatened to mount a comeback. Harvard kept the visitors hemmed deep in their own half, peppering Brown with 24 shots in the game, while Harvard's Billy Blood faced only...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Booters Cruise to Fifth Straight, 4-0 | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

...Huskies' Holly Payne scored first with 3:14 left in the remarkably even first half. Although the Huskies owned a 9-2 edge in shots at intermission, Harvard kept possession most of the time, and breakaway rushes by Payne and Lorie McCollum accounted for many of the UConn attempts...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Stickwomen Bow to Powerful Huskies | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

...economic decline, it thus will be early 1980 before experts can formally announce the arrival of a textbook recession. But the latest indications of growth were deceiving and cannot endure long. The upswing was due primarily to a temporary increase in consumer spending, as people who had been kept away from stores last spring by gasoline shortages did catch-up shopping during the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Where Is That Recession? | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...that he was equally up to the challenge in a mid-autumn monsoon. Rain fell before or during each of the first three games, and temperatures were in the numbing 30s and low 40s, but Kuhn came sans coat and umbrella one night. He saw to it that players kept up appearances as well, forbidding the wearing of woolen ski caps during batting practice and on the bench. "I don't know about him," one Pirate grumbled, "but my ears are cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pops Go the Pirates | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...illegal procedure call on Harvard put the ball back at midfield three plays later for a third and 16. A ripping reception by Tom Beatrice at the 24 kept the drive going momentarily, but mistakes began to take over...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Crimson Gridders Drop Fifth Straight | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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