Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This season, he started slowly, but launched a five-meet winning streak about half-way through. "Actually everything started to come together after I lost to Manness by 13 points at Princeton," Murphy said. "I hit my peak against Yale" -- he won the dive by 40 points -- "and then the Eastern just fell into place...
...powerful Army team gobbled up six of 13 first places and snapped Harvard's unprecedented winning streak, 53-40, in the Heptagonals Saturday. But the Crimson thoroughly outclassed the other Ivy squads and won the League championship for the sixth straight year...
...finals, he had to beat France's Daniel Contet, Britain's Graham Stilwell, Denmark's Torben Ulrich, California's Stan Smith and Graebner. He got by them all. Against Ashe, Pasarell had to use his brain instead of his bomb when he hit a wild streak and could not find the court with his first serve. He switched tactics by easing up, angling his serves wide into the corners, and rushing the net consistently. Time after time, he caught Ashe out of position with quick, accurate volleys...
...against Cornell--the meet that broke a Big Red 31-meet streak and set up the Crimson for the championship run--it was Henjyoji and Naylor making tough matches look easy with 5-0 and 5-2 decisions which eventually proved the margin...
...fact Cornell's hotshot divers Jay Moses and Tom Paxton swept their event in a December meet with Eastern leader Yale, and either one of them could snap the five-meet winning streak of Harvard ace Bill Murphy...