Word: tourneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high points, the weekend also had its misfortunes. Injuries, never far from an athlete's mind, marred the tourney weekend. The most tragic accident befell the Cornell teams when their bus went out of control on an icy road and flipped over as the women returned to Ithaca Sunday night. Several team members were hospitalized and two were placed under intensive care...
...basketball tournament at the Palestra, some intense rivalries developed. The weaker teams like Barnard and Dartmouth were trounced by powerful Princeton and Yale, but continuous action and constant tension sparked the gymnasium crowd. In its third year, the hoop tourney was more exciting than in previous years because of an improved level of play and the increased competitiveness of various squads...
Food and festivity followed the athletics. Saturday night, Penn served up large portions of roast beef at a sumptuous banquet. Sunday night parties celebrated the tourney's end. The Harvard women took over Pagano's, a Philadelphia Italian restaurant featuring lotsa pasta. They cornered Pagano's bar and danced tirelessly to a band blasting the best of the disco sounds. Diving coach John Walker invented a new dance called "the basketball," and the band dedicated Rolls Royce's "Car Wash" to the Harvard women, presumably with some reason behind the selection...
...Watch the Radcliffe hoopsters match set shots with their New Haven counterparts. This game will determine second fiddle in the Ivies behind Princeton, which bested both the Crimson and Elis in last week's Ivy tourney...
After a strong performance in the Ivy League tourney in Philadelphia last weekend, the Radcliffe hoopsters hit the road again last night for Norton, Mass. where they easily whipped Wheaton...