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Dartmouth was the pre-season favorite to finish atop the league this year along with Princeton, and a victory today in Boston's Franklin Park by Harvard would go a long way towards an Ivy championship for the Crimson...
Well, next year--1981--finally rolled around, and the traditional spell of House football began to descend upon Harvard. The air was brisk, spirits soaring, and Lowell Coach Mike Pontrelli called his warriors together for a pre-season pep talk...
...captain Munatones had mixed feelings about the tournament: "Certainly I am disappointed with the outcome. We have to nature a little more. We went to California [on a seven-game pre-season trip] to develop the poise to beat teams like Navy but with only two seniors this trip is still young...
...shut down a Dartmouth squad that had surprised almost every opponent it had faced this year. After not winning an Ivy game last year the Big Green entered yesterday's title showdown riding a four game winning streak and on the heels of its 8-7 upset of pre-season Ivy favorite Penn last weekend...
...been more than just the stroke of her magic Wand that has brought her squad out of the depths of despair and into today's championship game. Sure, the Big Green machine caught a few teams by surprise early in the season, had the fortune to meet pre-season Ivy favorite Penn on neutral turf, and did defeat three Ivy foes by a total of three goals. But, as Harper says, the Dartmouth squad "has played consistently all year. And once the girls saw that they could win, they just started playing better and better...