Word: squad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successor was immediately named. In his announcement to the squad Wednesday, Shattuck said he would find his successor personally...
...driving shot by Duncan with 4:13 to play put the Crimson ahead again, 62-60, but a Bazelak three-pointer left the squad behind by one with 3:48 left...
...triumph extended the Crimson's winning streak to 52 consecutive games, and upped the squad's record...
Harvard Co-Captain Kevin Jernigan followed up Bernheimer's victory with a 13-15, 15-13, 15-9, 17-16 win, increasing the squad's lead...
Copycat names (Oakland Raiders, Oakland Invaders) are also popular. After the New York Mets came the football Jets, basketball Nets, the team-tennis Sets and the Off-Track Betting Bets (known locally as the Debts). There was even some loose talk of a water-polo squad to be known, inevitably, as the Wets, and a women's basketball team, the Pets. This sort of secondhand glory is an old story in sports, dating back at least to football's Detroit Lions' and Chicago Bears' attempting to identify with the established baseball teams, the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs. Another kind...