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UConn has parlayed its superior skills and strong goaltending into a 9-1-1 season ledger, with the sole loss coming at the hands of top-ranked North Carolina two weeks ago. The talented set of Buckley twins, leading scorer Moira (13 goals and five assists as back striker) and center fullback Tara, lead Coach Len Tsantiris...
...triumph, which ups the booters' perfect ledger to 5-0 and 1-0 in the Ivies, removes any doubt that this young team can play under pressure with any of the East's top teams...
Finishing the 1980 season with an overall record of nine wins, three losses and three ties, Princeton sported a 3-1-2 ledger in the Ivies. The Tigers tied Yale, 0-0, and tied number-two Dartmouth, 1-1, scoring one of three goals scored on Dartmouth all season. All but one player returns from last year's squad...
...story. News, after all, started out chronicling heroes. Homer and Vergil were only carrying on a tradition that started with cave paintings when they put the Odyssey and Iliad to verse. Praises of exceptional men were to be sung. News today may be little more than bookkeeping, closer to ledger accounting than anything else. But even now we respond, almost intuitively, to heroes. Maybe with a little mistrust, to be sure, but still intuitively. Even Fortune magazine profiles petroleum executives in terms of bloody business combatants: vicious merger bids being the modern equivalent of a head on a lance...
...large student lounge so we entered to identify ourselves. This, it became clear, had not been necessary, for we had not been noticed. Bent over a large, ornately carved wooden table, a middle-aged man sorted through stacks of papers, referring every so often to an open ledger book filled with names and grades...