Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called "physical fatigue." It might also be called "scheduling stupidity." Time was that we played the Beanpot immediately after exam break. We were rusty, they were sharp. We usually lost. For the last five years we have found a new way to lose. We schedule games on Friday and Saturday nights before the Beanpot. Before the final we tried even harder to lose: games against numbers three and four in the ECAC in Upstate New York, a punishing loss to Colgate in overtime, and a long bus ride home. (Note: if the team hadn't been worrying about the Beanpot...
...Northeastern play on Friday and Saturday nights before a Beanpot game? You think they're crazy? They never have and never will. B.U. hadn't played at all for a week and came in fresh as a daisy. No, these teams are not so stupid as to refuse a gift when it's offered so generously: probably the equivalent of two or three goals per game...
...Crimson fell to Yale, 79-74, Saturday night at Briggs Cage. The defeat virtually destroyed Harvard's chance to repeat as Ivy League champions. It was the Crimson's second straight Ivy loss, dropping Harvard to 14-9 overall...
Dartmouth knocked off Brown, 72-60, Saturday to improve to 10-1 in the Ivy League. And the Big Green shows no signs of slowing down...
...shaken, replied, "I think I have to take it very seriously indeed." He canceled a planned book tour in the U.S., moved out of his four-story house in North London and, under protection of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist squad, quietly disappeared. Then, in a formal statement released on Saturday, he declared, "I profoundly regret the distress that publication has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam...