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With Harvard fighting for second place in the Ivy League, Mangrum beat Yale captain Chris Legg, 7-6, in a match he was supposed to lose. The Crimson went on to nip the Elis...

Author: By J. C. and R. N. G., S | Title: Four Crimson Squads Choose New Captains | 3/18/1971 | See Source »

...learn the hard way. In the first game the muscular first baseman drilled a sure-fire double down the third-base line-or so he and 51,531 fans thought. In one lightning motion, Brooks whirled across the line, snared the ball backhand and threw off-balance to nip May at first. Next game. May hit another shot down the line that the lunging Robinson speared on one knee and turned into a double play. Rubbing it in, Robby the Robber stole another base hit from Cincinnati in the third game with an incredible diving catch that left the Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Destructive Force of Robby the Robber | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

Alvord trailed the Cadets' Tony Dedmond and Kevin Flanagan to the wire in the 100, and a desperate attempt to nip Flanagan left the Harvard junior sprawled out on Army's slow black-cinder track...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Cindermen Down Unbeaten Army | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...creature bears far more resemblance to Lon Chancy hamming up his wolf-man act than to Bela Lugosi spiraling in for an elegant neck shot. Aside from the remote possibility of contracting rabies (bats, like most mammals, can transmit the disease), the only danger from a vampire's nip is botfly larvae, parasites that cradle in superficial wounds. People need not fear, however. For the timid vampire almost never bites humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Belfry | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...Schnorr and captain Paul Catinella climaxed their home careers at Harvard with victories that gave the Crimson the early lead. Schnorr blitzed John Eure at 118. 8-0, in his best bout of the season. while Catinella scored a takedown with 20 seconds left to nip Yamashita...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Wrestlers Drop Season Finale To Yale; Starr Captures Freshman Eastern Title | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

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