Word: laxmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Down 10-6 late in the third quarter, Harvard overcame the mud and the favored Princeton laxmen to notch the last five tallies of the contest. As the Crimson players danced for joy in the driving rain after the final gun, no one who was there could help but think, "wait 'til next year, this is just the beginning...
That was just two months ago. Saturday, one short year after Harvard edged Princeton to highlight a happy season, the Tigers destroyed the Crimson, 17-7. It was Harvard's third straight loss, coming after the laxmen had misfired against a top-ranked but flat Cornell squad, 12-5, and been upset by hapless Yale, 13-10. That was the Elis' only Ivy triumph in the last two years...
Suffering their third straight loss, the 4-6 laxmen now need to knock off ninth-ranked UMass this week just to keep alive their chances for a winning season. After the battle with the Minutemen, the Crimson wrap up the season with games against Williams and Dartmouth...
...Crimson stickmen travel to Ithaca today to face the top-ranked Cornell laxmen. Harvard has won its last two games while the home team has taken twenty straight, including last Spring's NCAA championship game...
Since then, however, six of the seven Bruin laxmen who earned All-Ivy mention last year have graduated, and Stevenson's inexperienced squad has struggled so far this year, going...