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...decide the Ivy League football championship. 1982 marked only the third time in Ivy history that three teams shared a football championship, but this year's battle for gridiron supremacy should be as hotly contested. No fewer than four teams can stake a respectable claim to be the preseason favorite, and if Harvard, Yale. Penn and Dartmouth stumble, don't be too surprised if Brown or Cornell rises out of the second division to grab the title. Only Princeton and Columbia seem inescapably bound for the ranks of the also rans...
...despite problems at quarterback and the offensive line. Berndt thinks his team can do it again. "We are going to behave like defending champions," he said during the preseason. If it comes down to a field goal, as it did last year against Harvard with no time left on the clock. Berndt can count on placekicker Dave Shutman to pull him through...
...team upped its overall mark to 9-1-1, and its 1-0-1 EIBL slate is the only spotless ledger in the league. Navy--now 19-6-2 overall, 7-2-1 in league play--split a doubleheader with Yale last week. The Elis and the Midshipmen were preseason picks to battle the Crimson for the league title...
When the season began, the racquetmen sensed their potential, and started a rigorous preseason training program with an intensity that hadn't existed in previous seasons. "In a lot of ways our team was formed then." Co-Captain John Dinneen remembers. "We really started to realize the team aspect of being willing for each other rather than ourselves...
Sands knocked off Pepperdine's Richard Gallien ranked 13th in the preseason ratings in the tourney's opening round then dropped Texas netman Jon Levine, 2-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the second...