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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Restic Respects Tiger Offense, Views Cornell as Ivy Spoiler | 11/6/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn Scramble In Wide-Open Race for Grid Laurels | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Italian Crude | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

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...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: Batmen's Hopes for EIBL Crown Rest On Away Contests With Cornell, Army | 5/11/1973 | See Source »

ODDLY, YOU WANT TO read more, despite the fact that by now you've had, or should have, quite enough of this Fogarty. He is obnoxious, a coward, and an addicted milk spoiler. He can't help but undermine whatever comes his way, from an old widow's memories to marriages to meetings political and/or alcoholic. Nothing is sacred Everything is there for a pot shots, including himself. And yet somehow, despite all his crumminess. Fogarty somehow emerges as a likeable creation. If nothing else he is an excellent vehicle for the author's pot shots at the political...

Author: By Alice VAN Buren, | Title: Three Dogs With a Spoiler | 1/12/1973 | See Source »

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