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...rest will, as usual, be up to the other members of the nine-man team...
...last two years, the Crimson men's squash team won the six- and nine-man national titles, the men's rugby squad won nationals, the Radcliffe lightweight crew won the national crown and the Harvard heavyweight crew won nationals and the prestigous Royal Henley Regatta in England...
Embarrassment piled on embarrassment for the South African government last week after the ambush of a nine-man commando unit by Angolan troops. Reason: South Africa was supposed to have withdrawn the last of its soldiers from Angola in April under a U.S.-mediated accord. General Constand Viljoen, head of South Africa's Defense Forces, admitted that the country still had military units in Angola on "reconnaissance and information-gathering" missions against rebel groups like the African National Congress (ANC), which is known to have bases there. But the captured leader of the commando squad, Captain Wynand Petrus du Toit...
...claimed the national five, six-and nine-man championships, dropping barely any games, much less matches, along the way to the feat. The women earned the Ivy title and the Howe Cup (the de facto national title) in the same year for the first time in the team's history...
...four-time time defending champion Crimson on has already copped two national titles this season the U.S. Squash Racquets Association crown and the above-mentioned nine-man title, which Harvard won by completing a perfect 11-0 dual-meet season...