Word: match-up
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...Harvard Stadium on the verge of either freezing or passing out, the final seconds ticked away in last year's Ivy League Upset Of The Year. The scoreboard read Brown 10, Harvard 7 as the Crimson's hope of an undefeated Ivy season and the dreams of a match-up with unbeaten Yale the next week were crunched beneath an awesome Bruin defense on a cold, November afternoon...
Immediately preceding the Quaker-Tiger match-up, in the Rainbow classic, Penn displayed foul problems, both personal and technical, in losing to Ohio State and Tulsa. The Quaker's 100-88 victory over Florida in the classic was the only compensation for their 6000 mile trek...
With the return of Neal Miller and Pete Curtin, and the continued excellence of Holt, the Crimson offense churns along like a well-oiled machine. The match-up with Yale's nationally-ranked defense should prove at least a little interesting...
...They're [the Wheaton squad] not bad," a generous Muscatine said after the match. "They have a reputation for being fairly solid." Not solid enough, however, as the 'Cliffe squad had faced much stiffer competition throughout the season. This was no real match...
Later, in the tenth, Oriole left-fielder Don Baylor camped under a pop-up, and someone behind me hollered, "Drop it, niggah." It reminded me of another Red Sox-Orioles match-up last September when the Orioles led off a fruitful first inning with Bumbry, Coggins, Tommy Davis, Baylor, Paul Blair and Earl Williams--all of them black. The man in front of me sullenly counted off the players out loud. When Williams came to the dish he pronounced to his son in a pained prophetic tone, "Well, that's six of' em." The kid asked...