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Meanwhile, the Crimson comes into this year’s showdown as the only undefeated team left in Division I-AA. In order to maintain that status, Harvard must figure out a way to put points on the board against a stingy Quaker defense...
After the hype and build up for the biggest Ivy showdown since 2001 faded away, the Harvard football team stormed Franklin Field today and left no doubt who deserves to wear the 2004 Ivy crown. The No.15 Crimson dismantled the No. 17 Penn Quakers 31-10, winning in Philadelphia for the first time since 1980 and securing at least a share of the Ivy title. The league championship is the second for Harvard in four years and 11th overall...
Almost four years later, there are no lingering feelings about the decision on either end. When the Quakers and the Crimson face off in what has become a nearly annual showdown to determine the Ivy crown, there is too much at stake to reminisce about one player’s decision. Today, Bagnoli has nothing but praise for the wiry kid that he admittedly “tried like heck” to recruit...
...they reaped eight decades of squat, with the occasional run at the title always ending in tragedy, including seventh-game World Series losses to St. Louis (1946 and 1967), Cincinnati (1975) and the New York Mets (1986), as well as the painful collapse in last year's league championship showdown with the Yankees...
...Kofi Annan have warned that if the assault of Fallujah creates a backlash that keeps Sunnis away from the polls, then the operation will have been self-defeating. Even acting president Ghazi al-Yawer, the most senior Sunni figure in Allawi's government, has publicly warned that a bloody showdown would play into the hands of the insurgency, adding that "the way the Coalition is handling the crisis is wrong." But on Monday, Allawi emphasized that he'd received Yawer's blessing for his state of emergency declaration...