Word: spoiler
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...Bruins, with not much more to gain than a spoiler role, could provide the upset of the season, a feat they nearly achieved against Yale, before bowing 1 to 0, to an eighth-inning Eli tally...
...Crimson won its first Ivy championship in 17 years by defeating Princeton in the teams' second meeting last season, 3 to 1. This season's Tigers will again attempt the spoiler role and, in addition, probably have greater ambitions of degrading the varsity's national reputation in front of the Eastern NCAA Selection Committee...
...Crimson's basketball tea, appearing now as one of the spoiler teams in the Ivy League, left Cambridge this morning for a two game road series against league-leading Penn tonight and second-place Columbia tomorrow night...
Navy will try to play the role of spoiler as the varsity seeks its fifth straight victory. Not only has the Crimson won its four meets so far, but it is also undefeated in three individual events, the 100- and 220-yard freestyle and 200-yard breast-stroke, and in the two team relays, the 300-yard medley and the 400-yard freestyle...
...Bruin is notorious in a spoiler role, especially on his own ice. The varsity has not won at Providence since 1950 and twice last year Brown upset a heavily favored Crimson team to spell its chances for the Pentagonal title...