Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State. On the night after Christmas, while 12,203 fans screamed themselves hoarse and a platoon of cheerleaders bounded about the court, Evansville trampled a good Massachusetts team, 113-82. Last week, with victories over South Dakota State (76-63) and South Dakota (98-71), the Aces ran their streak to eight straight, turned the small-college rankings race into a walkover-collecting all but one of the votes for the No. 1 spot...
...U.C.L.A.: a 115-93 victory over Boston College in the finals of the Milwaukee Classic basketball tournament, first of traditional round of big-college holiday battles. Last year's N.C.A.A. champion, U.C.L.A. ran its 1964 winning streak to five in a row, baffling the fast-breaking Eagles with a full-court "zone press"-despite 34 points by B.C. Guard John Austin, who was playing with an injured wrist...
...gave him the confidence to see himself as he is not. Hughie was the heaven-sent sucker who believed that Erie was the lovemaster of Ziegfeld Follies girls, that Erie beat the "bangtails," the cards and the dice, and hobnobbed with big-time Broadway mobsters. On a hungover losing streak, Erie knows that he desperately needs another Hughie, and the question is whether the new night clerk, a mousy, laconic deadhead (Jack Dodson), can be conned into the role...
...anybody in Chicago how come, and they start talking about Left Wing Bobby Hull, 25, whose sensational scoring streak is the talk of the young season. In 27 games, Hull has scored 27 goals, close to one-third of his team's total and more than twice as many as anybody else in the N.H.L. Against the Canadiens last week, he got two-plus two assists:-and only a prolonged slump or injury can keep him from passing Maurice ("Rocket") Richard's mark of 50, a season record that has been tied twice in 19 years (once...
...shutout victory extends the Crimson's winning streak to 35 consecutive wins over the past four seasons, and leaves them heavy favorites in tomorrow's match against Amherst...