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Coach Alex Nahigian's charges finish the season at 24-12 and nary a tear will fall in the Soldiers Field dugout. The Crimson swept a three-game playoff from Cornell and Yale last weekend to win the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League and make the playoffs...
Through five frustrating springs, they were unable to improve upon their playoff record, contriving to swoon at Stanley Cup time despite regular-season records that were the envy of the league. The Islanders' woes were at their worst last year. The club finished with the best record in the N.H.L. Center Bryan Trottier won the M.V.P. and scoring trophy, Denis Potvin was voted the top defenseman and Right Wing Mike Bossy led the league in goals, with 69. Despite such muscular credentials, the Islanders were eliminated in the semifinals by their bitter next-island rivals, the New York Rangers...
Fortunately, the Islanders did not abandon their experiment in role reversal. After such a disastrous regular season, they put together a miraculous playoff record, sweeping through the early rounds to reach the finals at last. The Islanders hope the trend continues, for their Stanley Cup opponents are those somewhat reformed thugs at the other end of the New Jersey Turnpike, the Philadelphia Flyers, proud possessors of the league's best regular-season mark: 48 wins, 20 ties and 12 losses, including a record-setting 35-game undefeated streak...
Most dramatically, the soccer team, after only its second year of varsity status, rose to supremacy in the East--and perhaps the nation--tying for top honors last fall in the regional championship (there is no organized national playoff yet), but improvement has come at a cost--to both women and coaches...
Though I disagree with much of the rhetoric delivered by Yale President A. Barlet Giamatti, who recently called for the Ivy League to downgrade its recruiting efforts and perhaps abolish playoff competition, I sympathize with the spirit of his remarks. He urges a realistic recognition of what the Ivy League is about, and that is --most of all-scholarly enterprise...