Word: racing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unexpected loss either today or next Saturday, to weak Yale, would knock the Crimson out of the league title race...
...Harvard wins, it will probably end up in a four-way tie for third place with Yale, Cornell, and Penn in the tightest Ivy Leave race ever. It's extremely rare when the first place team, which happens to be Brown, has lost 2 of its six games. No matter what happens, the Bruins, who were upset by Cornell last weekend, are guaranteed at least a tie for the championship. Yale and Princeton can get in on it if they win their last games Saturday...
While Dartmouth was scoring this major upset, Cornell and Yale were also turning in surprise victories to completely clutter the Ivy race. The Big Red edged Brown, 8-7 and Princeton was upset for the second week in a row, 6-4 by Yale. If the Crimson had beaten Dartmouth, it probably would have ended up in a three-way tie with Brown and Princeton for the title. But Harvard is now eliminated because of its three losses...
Junior Roy Shaw was the only Crimson performer to take a first in a running event as he edged Yale's Frank Shorter in a photo-finish mile run. Both had times of 4:09.1. Harvard's Tom Spengler came in third, and John Heyburn finished fifth in the race...
Harvard plans no strategy changes and will row at its usual high stroke for the race...