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...field hockey team this year overall had a pretty mediocre season. There were difinitely some bright spots and some games where the squad played brilliantly, but there were also games like the Springfield loss where the stickwomen just could not get things together...
Then came the Springfield game and the beginning of a four game losing streak which would have to be called the low point of the season. Scoring may have been difficult for the team before the slump-but it became a near impossibility as the stick-women converted only once in their next three games...
Last year there was only one field hockey championship, the AIAW's. This year there are two. Starting with this season, the NCAA is also sponsoring field hockey playoffs. The top four finishers in the '80 EAIAW championships--UNH-UMass, UConn, and Springfield College-all decided to participate in the NCAA tournament...
Money-or lack of it--has always been a problem with AIAW championships. In 1979 the Eastern champion Springfield field hockey team could not attend the AIAW national tournament simply because the college could not pay for the trip. But despite the financial benefits of joining the NCAA bandwagon, the Ivy League has decided to stay with the AIAW. "We thought that we should stick with the AIAW until we can see what path the NCAA is following," said Pat Miller, Harvard's assistant athletic director, earlier this year...
...both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower stand significantly higher today than when they left the White House. Eisenhower probably could have been elected on any platform he chose in 1952, but he and his Republican handlers relished running against the Truman "mess in Washington," and poor Adlai Stevenson, from Springfield, Ill., was not allowed to change the subject. Today that mess ("Communism, Corruption, Korea") is largely forgotten; we have seen worse. And Harry Truman has a reputation as a statesman-for the first postwar line drawing against the Soviets, the Truman Doctrine covering Turkey and Greece; for the Marshall Plan...