Word: postseason
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...standings, the Beanpot and the postseason can all wait until the year 2000. For those of you looking for a little help making it through the last weekend before vacation, tonight's game should be a holiday treat, especially if fast-paced hockey is your thing...
...would be the lone postseason appearance in Harvard football history. In 1922, the Big Three--Harvard, Yale and Princeton--would make an agreement not to enter postseason contests, only enriching and emphasizing the competition between themselves while preventing the teams from competing with schools like Michigan, Notre Dame and other emerging national football powers. In 1954, the Ivy League was formed, and its regulations, including those regarding the prohibition of athletic scholarships, were made fully operational in 1956. While the rest of the country was heading in a direction that some might refer to as the professionalization of college sports...
...ladder of college football, but with time, as the University presidents and faculty have determined that athletics should take a back seat to academics, the football teams have been surpassed by schools with more lax academic policies, an even greater tradition of winning football and postseason opportunities...
Even with an overwhelming advantage in shots on goal of 23-11, the Crimson (14-2-1, 7-0 Ivy) was unable to overcome a late first half score by Eagle senior forward Mary Guarino and made an improbable exit from the postseason tournament as the No. 8 seed in a field...
Although I wasn't in Providence when it happened, Brown did beat Harvard last year--coincidentally, in the fatal second weekend of the season. There is a long way to go until the postseason rolls around in March, and in the long run this game was no more important than Saturday's 7-2 shellacking of helpless Boston College...