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...Three meet, while Harvard barely escaped the cellar. But three years later, under McCurdy's direction, the Crimson thinclads beat their heavily favored archrivals in the annual head-to-head confrontation. Currently, Northeastern and Princeton are Harvard's chief competition, and the Crimson downed both teams in regular-season contests, attesting to the effectiveness of McCurdy's continued emphasis on the dual meet...
...Hampshire beats Dartmouth here Saturday night to finish 11-8-2. Since a tie is counted as half a win and half a loss in the ECAC standings, both teams would finish with the equivalent of 12-9 records, and because the Crimson beat Providence in regular-season play, Harvard would...
Under the current Ivy setup, the regular season means nothing except a competition for seeds in the League tournament, and a chance to gain some momentum going in--as the Crimson has done. Starting next year, the best regular-season record will be worth a league championship, but this year it's worth only a number-one seeding and a first-round bye (to top-ranked Princeton...
...equivalent of the Beanpot for the men. But the league's athletic directors are now in the process of phasing out the Ivy Tournaments for women's basketball, swimming, ice hockey, softball and soccer in favor of round robin matches, with the championship to be decided based on regular-season Ivy League records...
DIED. Edward Simmons ("Ned") Irish, 76, founder and past president of the New York Knickerbockers basketball team, who was also largely responsible for promoting college basketball into a major arena sport; of a heart attack; in Venice, Fla. In 1934 he launched the first regular-season college basketball doubleheader at New York's Madison Square Garden, and went on to run its successful college basketball program. In 1946 Irish helped set up what eventually became the National Basketball Association...