Word: pac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...football season assures nothing more than the unexpected, especially this year with six teams conceivably in the race for the championship. No one dares to place the Ivies in the realm of big-time football, but then again, at least all eight teams will compete, unlike the Pac...
...they say, "we beat Yale, and they had the No. 1 defense in the nation." Yes, and there could never have been a sweeter moment. But anyone who suspects such a win foreshadows a move to the ranks of the Big Ten or Pac Eight should submit to therapy...
...they are plainly back in contention. No longer the mighty lords of college ball, they are pretenders, nonetheless, a jerry-built squad that entered the championships with a so-so regular-season record of 17 wins and 9 losses. U.C.L.A. finished a humiliating fourth in its own conference, the Pac-10, after dropping four games on its home court. In the previous 15 seasons, U.C.L.A. had lost only seven times at Pauley Pavilion...
Third place will likely go to one of the Los Angeles schools. UCLA, with Olympic gold medalist Brian Goodell and junior college transfer Bill Barrett leading the way, trounced USC for second at the PAC-10 meet, but any Peter Daland-coached group with as much latent talent as the Trojans cannot be discounted...
...influx of new faces will be most visible in the breaststrokes and the 200-yd. I.M. Barrett won all three events at the PAC-10s; SMU freshman Steve Lundquist holds the American records in both breaststrokes and once set a world record in the 200-meter I.M.; and Scott Spann, a 1978 NCAA double winner (I.M. and 100-yd. breast) before transferring to Texas, all may rate as favorites. In addition, rookies John Simons (Stanford) and David Lundberg (Harvard) are coming off great long-course seasons and could challenge in any or all of these events...