Word: upset
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After this year's loss in the Easterns, captain Bruce LoPucki said that the only chance the golfers had of attending the national championship hinged on closing victories against Dartmouth and Princeton. Those victories never came as Dartmouth upset Harvard and the Tigers won handily at home. "After those losses, I though our chances of attending the NCAAs at that time were very slim," LoPucki said, "I never thought that we'd see Colorado Springs...
...fathers are also public officials, an extra burden. The presence of the son of Air Force Secretary Robert C. Seamans Jr., at the recent Harvard sit-in, for instance, was widely noted in press accounts. Like other prominent men in this situation, Seamans refuses to discuss the matter. Equally upset are the parents of some first-generation college students, including poor Negroes, who are baffled when their children seem to reject the grail - a middle-class education...
Yale's fourth man, Lathrop Gates, upset Larry Terrell in three sets, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, and junior Butch Kawakami, substituting for injured Chris Nielsen at number six, dropped two 7-5 sets to the Eli's Dan Tansey...
Yale played its best game of the season last Saturday to upset Princeton, 6-4, and hike its league record to 3-2. In addition to this new momentum and a chance for the championship, another factor will be the Elis' attempt to win the final game of coach Dick Corrigan's career...
...Crimson, upset by Dartmouth a week after upending Princeton, is now 2-3 in the league and can do no better than second. But the team's spirit seems good again, as it was before the Princeton game. Harvard can spoil Yale's bid just as it destroyed the Tigers' chance for an undefeated season and sole possession of the championship...