Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oddsmakers have made Princeton (3-1 Ivy League) a two-point favorite over the Quakers (4-0 Ivy, 6-0 overall). Penn has won or shared five of the last six Ivy championships. So why should the Quakers, in great position to run that streak to six of the last seven, be the underdogs...
...Lions (1-3, 1-5), who two weeks ago snapped their 44-game losing streak, have lost their last two games...
...Bison, which lost to Princeton, 41-35, last week, scored three touchdowns to put the game away and hand the Lions a new losing streak...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House; $24.95). In a riveting portrait, John Paul Vann, a major architect of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, emerges as a man who embodied the contradictions of his ill-fated mission: a courageous do-gooder with a dark streak of amorality...
Intangibles: Harvard is on a four-game losing streak and needs a victory in a big game to snap out of its doldrums. A victory over Princeton would not only give a boost to the ailing Crimson but would keep the team in the race for the Ivy League championship...