Word: matchup
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...soon to tell how it’s going to go for us.”Harvard will figure out its strengths and weaknesses very quickly as it opens the season with four out of five games against ECAC opponents. The streak ends with a tough matchup against the top-ranked national team, St. Lawrence. The talented Saints will benefit from a few weeks’ head start to the season“We have been waiting for this for a while now,” captain Carrie Schroyer said. “In the preseason we are waiting...
...both—have been undefeated in the league when the two collide the second weekend in November. Even when Harvard wasn’t contending for the title (in 2003, when the team came in on a two-game losing streak) the outcome of the matchup, a 32-24 Penn win, wasn’t decided until the final seconds. In other words, Yale is for bragging rights, but Penn is for the championship. It’s not going to be that way this season. The YES Network cameras will be at Harvard Stadium...
...over Yale. “Quinnipiac will be a good team this season,” Stone said. “Anything can happen when you aren’t ready to go.” The bigger challenge this weekend for the Crimson may be its Saturday matchup at home against the Tigers. Princeton is just outside the national top 10, and last year they were the only team not to lose to Harvard during the latter’s 21 game unbeaten streak leading up to the NCAA finals. Roxanne Gaudiel—a key component...
...England vs. France When the World Cup comes to the U.S. in 1994, this is the vaunted matchup that won't take place; both teams got eliminated in trials. Americans will still be treated to a summer clinic in the world's most popular sport -- without the criminal antics of Britain's soccer hooligans...
...Tigers and beaten the Bears. The big game for the Crimson to watch—and the one that will likely determine if it has a shot at a championship heading into the final two weeks—will be next week’s Yale-Brown matchup. As difficult as it may be, Harvard fans are going to have to swallow their pride, put on anything blue they own, and root for the Bulldogs to knock off the Bears. If Brown gets by Yale unscathed, the race is pretty much done. The Bears finish up against Dartmouth and Columbia...