Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four-time defending Ivy champion men's squash team will try to extend its victory streak of 47 consecutive matches. Gone is the great Kenton Jernigan, but able and ready racquetmen are set to take up the slack...
...four-time defending Ivy champion men's squash team will try to extend its victory streak of 47 consecutive matches. Gone is the great Kenton Jernigan, but able and ready racquetmen are set to take up the slack...
Head Coach Percy Haughton, Class of 1899, was rumored to have strangled a bulldog just prior to the 1908 Yale game. Haughton, known as an innovator for his staffing and scouting sytems, oversaw a 33-game winning streak during his nine-year stint--and also developed three-time All-American Edward W. Mahan...
...strategic importance appealed to many young naval officers. But winning a spot in Rickover's Navy was not easy: prospective submariners often had to sit before the old curmudgeon on an unbalanced chair whose front legs had been sawed off by several inches. The admiral's mean streak was legendary. He had no tolerance for defects in men or their work, and he sacked many an officer for being "stupid." Others, like a young ensign named Jimmy Carter, went on to better things...
...help anyone beat us." When a confusion of 1,500-meter heats turned Steve Scott's silver to bronze, he grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak to 111 races; Cheryl Miller led the U.S. women's basketball team to an 83-60 victory over the Soviets; Dasher Evelyn Ashford, 29, held off East Germany's Heike Drechsler, 21, for another day; Jackie Joyner became the first U.S. woman since Babe Didrikson Zaharias to hold the world record...