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...second round, Muscatine and Dizenfeld trounced the Middlebury representatives, 10-2, then proceeded to take apart the pair from the University of New Hampshire, 10-2, in a tune-up for the finals...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Tennis Teams Fare Well in Two Tourneys | 10/8/1974 | See Source »

...that swamp, without which a prison movie is not complete and where we have all done too much hard time. Finally, a compromise is reached. Reynolds will organize, coach and star on a team of inmates who are supposed to give the guards a tune-up game. Naturally, he recruits every psychopath in the slammer for his squad. Naturally, the game itself turns out to be more pier brawl than football-cruel but perhaps funnier than nice people like to admit. Naturally, when it looks as if the prisoners will win, Reynolds is asked to-and almost does-throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dirty Eleven | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...safely 40 yards away, breaking his own world's truck-jumping record. All of which was better than he did in Dallas last February, when he cleared only eleven trucks and broke his back. Despite his $65,000 fee, Knievel's Toronto show was clearly only a tune-up for the big one: his planned 4,871-ft. leap across Idaho's Snake River Canyon on Sept. 8 in a steam-powered Sky Cycle. While New York Congressman John Murphy sought legislation to ban coverage of Knievel's ultimate caper over network TV, "where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 2, 1974 | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...hoping to take a good crack at them," coach Jack Barnaby said of the Tigers. "We can drop them into a tie for first with Penn and we'd share third with Columbia with a win Saturday. This New England tourney was a great tune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Romp in Tourney; Golfers Fall Short | 5/15/1974 | See Source »

...Harvard lightweight crew, in a tune-up for next week's big race with Princeton, rowed to its third straight victory of the season, crushing Navy and St. Catherine's of Canada by one and three-quarters lengths on the Charles Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Heavies, Lights Trounce Weekend Foes | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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