Word: spoiler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along with this home-field jinx, Harvard will have the memory of last year's 10-7 loss to the Tigers as a reminder of the Tigers' ability to play the spoiler...
Dartmouth, Harvard and Penn are tied for first place in the Ivy League with 3-1 records. Restic said that Cornell may turn out to be the spoiler...
...continue to play as well as we did in the last half against Penn, we will get a piece of the title," said coach Joe Restic, "but to win, we will need some help. I look to Cornell to be the spoiler...
...idealism-compels attention. A pioneer conglomerator, he headed a state-owned corporation and drove himself not for money (he apparently had no life, let alone luxury, outside the office), but for power and, perhaps, for love of a game in which he delightedly cast himself in the role of spoiler...
Cornell, 8-3 and currently trailing the Crimson by a half game, must win today's contest in order to keep their pennant chances alive while the Cadets, 6-5, are relegated to the role of a spoiler...