Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dodgers are favored to take the elder ieague's title over the Pittsburgh Pirates who clinched the Eastern championship on Wednesday over the St. Louis Cardinals by a one-game margin. While the Pirates-Cards race was a close one, both teams would have finished no better than tied for third and fourth, respectively, in the Western division...
Exeter ruined Bruce Munro's debut as freshman soccer coach yesterday, trouncing the Crimson by a 4-1 margin...
Victory can be sweet even when it is easy. Chopping effortlessly through a moderate southerly breeze out in Rhode Island Sound, Courageous won her fourth straight race against Australia's Southern Cross by an almost embarrassingly wide margin of 7 min. 19 sec. That ended the best-of-seven America's Cup series and ensured that the old mug would remain bolted to its table in the New York Yacht Club, which has held it for 123 years. All that Courageous Skipper Ted Hood and his eleven-man crew got for their troubles was a few postrace swallows...
With bruising sophomore fullback Mark Cannon doing most of the heavy work, the Crusaders travelled 48 yards in ten plays. An 11-yard Morton pass to wide receiver Dave Quehl set up a one-yard plunge by the quarterback, cutting the Harvard margin to three points...
Newport Shipyard was quiet around 4 p.m. the afternoon of Race Four. Two miles offshore, however, Courageous had just successfully defended the America's Cup by the whopping margin of 7:19 in the final battle of the series. The radios on shore were the only clue to the jubilation on the water, as Hoyt bubbled over about the victorious American crew popping champagne on the deck as they waited for the Southern Cross to finish...