Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EIBL race, which it must win in order to qualify for the NCAA Division I title and a trip to the College World Series at Omaha. With a 7-3 record, the Crimson has run out of options, and in order to catch Dartmouth it needs a weekend sweep against Brown and Yale...
Earlier in the season Brown was considered one of the favorites in the league, but with a 4-5 record it will need a three game sweep against the two toughest teams in the league to climb into the first division. "This is a young team." coach George Woodworth said. "And while we're well-disciplined. we just haven't been getting the big hit when we have needed...
...outcome of the GBL race will not affect Harvard's chances for a trip to Omaha. In order to qualify, the Crimson must win the Eastern League. Dartmouth has a game advantage in the loss column, and can clinch the championship this weekend with a sweep over Yale and Brown. In order to keep its hopes alive. Harvard must beat Brown on Friday and then take a doubleheader from Yale on Saturday. If Dartmouth should lose a game, the championship will be decided in a make-up game between Harvard and Princeton, which will probably be played on Sunday...
Then, the unbeaten Harvard JV led Navy all the way down the 2,000-meter course to take a length victory, and a sweep was a distinct possibility. But Penn jumped the Harvard varsity at the start, leading by a half-length for a time. Then, at the midway point, the Crimson, stroked by Gene LaBarre, caught the Quakers and had begun to pass when the Penn shell filled with water...
...dumplings in the sky. In his general plea for decentralization - down with the bu reaucrats, up with neighborhood government - Novak seems on sounder ground, though he fails to prove that ethnic self-consciousness is the key. What validates the book is Novak's very recklessness - his willingness to sweep beyond defendable limits. This is the price he knowingly pays for a modest act of hope at a time when most intellectuals are playing it safe with predictions of Apocalypse. "There is a great deal yet to be discovered about America," Novak concludes. He has, in fact, attacked the American...