Word: slugfest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard entertained hopes of being invited to that slugfest last season but saw its dreams go down the drain with an overtime loss to Brown and an 18-7 pummelling at the hands of UMass. Scalise has concluded that while a 13-2 record would guarantee the Crimson a shot this year, there might still be an outside chance with three losses. But you could kiss the bid goodbye with four setbacks...
...Eastern European blooper aside, Ford gave an adequate performance (see following story). The whole debate was a 90-min. slugfest, in which both candidates threw roundhouse punches-a sharp contrast to the first dreary confrontation. But last week's encounter was more style than substance. Both candidates showed something of a box-score mentality, with Carter ticking off the names of the countries he has visited and Ford listing the names of the foreign leaders he has met. Carter greatly overstated America's weaknesses in the world. Ford's inability to put across his Administration...
With no hope for a quick knockout, the four leading Democratic candidates for President settled down last week for a long and bruising slugfest. Jimmy Carter, Henry Jackson and George Wallace were tirelessly crisscrossing Florida for this week's primary; Morris Udall was gamely trying to pull together the party's liberals before his next major outings on April 6 in New York and Wisconsin. Thus for the moment the candidates were still hoping to win the fight on points by picking up enough delegates in the party's caucuses and primaries to gain an overwhelming advantage...
Mainella revealed that Restic is believed to have been introduced by New England Patriots's owner William Wullivan to the chairman of the Jets, Phil Iselin, on December 7, while the Jets were pitted in a slugfest for the division cellar with the Pats...
...Louis, as travel agencies are offering package deals for the tourney. But before you, or the Harvard hockey squad can go around humming "Meet Me in St. Louis," the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Association requires a couple of visits to historic Boston Garden for the ECAC annual slugfest...