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...regular season this year, Hartwick was ranked fourth in the nation with a 9-1-1 record. Harvard was seventh with a 10-1 mark. In the regional play-off games, Hartwick beat Army, 3-0, and Cornell, 4-1, to take the Division II title, while Harvard defeated Southern Connecticut, 5-0, and Brown, 3-0, in Division...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Booters Face Test | 12/4/1971 | See Source »

...rest of the team is in full stride. Chris Papagianis has scored four goals in the two play-off games, and captain Charlie Thomas has massed nine points in the last five games. The defense goes into the game with two consecutive shutouts, and Felix Adedeji has the individual finesse to break up a defensive battle...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Booters Face Test | 12/4/1971 | See Source »

...loss to Harvard today will damage Brown's chances to get an NCAA regional play-off berth. "We deserve to make the play-offs even if we lose," Stevenson said, "And if we beat Harvard we should be ranked first in New England...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Booters to Face Former Ivy Champs | 11/13/1971 | See Source »

...Harvard wins, it will be assured of the top ranking in New England and the home field advantage in both play-off games that goes along with...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Booters to Face Former Ivy Champs | 11/13/1971 | See Source »

...with, a source of joy (and sometimes sorrow) to New York's football and baseball fans. Who can forget the little miracle of Coogan's Bluff, when Bobby Thomson's ninth-inning home run in the old Polo Grounds beat the hated Dodgers in a 1951 play-off and won for the baseball Giants an impossible pennant? Or the frigid December day in 1934 when the football Giants, playing on a frozen field, switched from spikes to sneakers at halftime and ran away from the mighty Chicago Bears 30-13, to win their first National Football League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Move to the Meadowlands | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

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