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...perhaps the Mountaineers aren't really all they are stacked up to be, as they have yet to prove themselves against a powerful opponent. While they have prevailed in relatively close contests against smaller, weaker schools like William and Mary, Coppin State, Akron and Radford, they fell by 30 to Georgetown on Nov. 23 and lost to George Mason by seven three days later...
Against La Salle, a weaker opponent, the Crimson often seemed to have the game in the bag. With 14:58 left in the second half and Harvard up 10, Kelley made a beautiful play. On a pass from Sturdy, she swished a hook shot from the baseline that knotted the score...
...rich. These basic points are unexceptionable, except to people who know nothing of history or economic development. Expanded world trade is indeed an engine of development, for rich and poor countries alike. And the rule of law surely beats the rule of the jungle, especially for the weaker countries. The collapse of trade in the Great Depression taught us that lesson in brutal terms...
Against a significantly weaker opponent than it faced the night before, Harvard jumped out to big leads on strong spurts en route to a rout over Sacred Heart yesterday...
...their meetings through the turn of the century. In 1892, the Crimson introduced the controversial and soon-to-be-outlawed flying wedge offense, creating havoc for the Yale defense. Also, though the Harvard Faculty had backed off, the roughness of the game continued; strong but weaker-than-Yale Harvard teams compensated for their inferiority by stepping up the physicality of the contests, leading once in 1894 to a rumor that a Yale tackle had been killed after a game. (It would later be confirmed that in fact the player was suffering simply from "contusion of the brain," and he returned...