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...Coffey was the spoiler at the Baker Field finale, galavanting eight yards for the winning score...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Yale, Dartmouth Share Top Spot | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...freshman Eric Formm, reputed to be the best racquetman at that school since the halcyon days of current pro Henry Bunis (brother of Harvard's Al) and Vitas Gerulaitis. With losses to Princeton and Navy, Columbia has little chance to win the league crown, but it could play the spoiler role against the Crimson, as it did last year...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Racquetmen Make or Break Season This Weekend | 4/22/1977 | See Source »

...with our country. To me, McCarthy was some crazy clown who was to the liberals what Harold Stassen was to the conservatives. I figured that McCarthy was running because he enjoyed the attention and had nothing else better to do at the time. To me he was an egotistical spoiler...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Eugene McCarthy: Carrying the Crusade To Harvard College | 3/23/1977 | See Source »

While the former is entirely possible, the latter is as likely as recognizing the slide identifications in the Fine Arts 13 hourly, and as a result, the Crimson's role has basically been reduced to that of a spoiler...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Pennsylvania Turnovers Recharge Crimson, 20-8 | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Carter's lead held up even when the Yankelovich analysts figured in the support for Eugene McCarthy. Though McCarthy could conceivably have a spoiler role in some states, the poll showed that he is actually losing ground in the 29 states in which he is on the ballot. In the nationwide sample, McCarthy wins the backing of 7% of the voters surveyed, the same proportion as in late September. But when the analysts subtracted his strength in states where he is not on the ballot, the presidential race shaped up as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME POLL: CARTER TAKES A NARROW LEAD | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

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