Word: margin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite outscoring Princeton by 38 points on the final day of competition, the Crimson came up 32 points short of overtaking the Tigers, finishing in second overall by a 564-532 margin...
After the breaststroke, with two events remaining, Harvard had cut Princeton's lead down to only 18 points. But one of those two was the three-meter diving, in which Princeton's Doug Kirkman completed his sweep of the diving competition with a 15-point margin of victory, increasing the Tiger lead to 38 points...
...margin of victory translated into a mere 10.5 in. -- about the length of a speed-skating blade; for her crying, cheering relatives in the crowd, it might as well have been a mile. Blair, 23, willowy but muscular at 5 ft. 5 in., had brought home the gold medal to the U.S. And she had recaptured her world record from Rothenburger, who had first taken it away on the same rink only two months before. But wait. That's not all. Later in the week Blair went flying around the rink again to win the bronze medal in a personal...
...Yale senior Eric Mitchell made a key shot and was fouled, making a free throw with 19 seconds left in the game to give the Elis their margin of victory...
...even with some fast swims, Harvard finds itself down by a sizeable margin with one day of competition left. Having a few strong events left, most notably the 200 breaststroke, nobody is counting it out of the title race. But if the Crimson has any hope of winning today, it must swim exceptionally well...