Word: winningest
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Much of the team's success is due to the return of former Lions Coach Jack Rohan, the winningest coach in Columbia basketball history. Rohan returned to the sidelines this season after a 16-year hiatus. During Rohan's original head-coaching tenure, 1961-1974, the Lions enjoyed their most successful era, posting three consecutive 20-win seasons in the late 1970s...
...didn't turn out that way, because Princeton, historically the league's second-winningest team (nine Ivy championships) started out strong but faltered in the match's final hour...
...record 74 consecutive victories in singles and 109 straight in doubles ensure a place in history. She has earned tens of millions of dollars in endorsements, appearance fees at tournaments and exhibition matches, and prizes. What drives her is the desire to be the winningest ever at Wimbledon: "It is the thing I want to win more than anything else in the world. It has nothing to do with money. It's the best tournament...
...Jean King. She is also, in the far-from- isolated judgment of veteran NBC tennis commentator Bud Collins, "the best American player since Billie Jean." That accolade puts her above the likes of Pam Shriver, Tracy Austin and Capriati's friend and role model, Chris Evert, the sport's winningest player of all time...
ITHACA, N.Y.--The Harvard men's hockey team's hopes of salvaging its disappointing season came to a crashing halt here Saturday night. And so did the illustrious career of Harvard's winningest coach ever...