Word: yales
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Harvard's varsity soccer team completed its second straight undefeated Ivy League season yesterday by beating stubborn Yale, 1-0, on a overtime goal by Charlie Thomas...
...winning goal came on a fluke play that was set up by the constant pressure and deep penetration applied by Thomas, Phil Kydes, and Solomon Gomez on Yale goalie Ken Pasternak during the first of two five-minute overtime periods...
...scoring junior raced for the goal. The ball was lost in a massive pileup in front of the net and mystically reappeared in the loft corner of the goal. Both squads and the large crowd of spectators were dazed. The game for all practical purposes had ended there as Yale came completely apart. The remainder of the contest was only a formality...
What we are witnessing, in the words of Crimson coach Joseph W. Bernal, "is the creation of the Harvard swimming dynasty of the 1980s," designed to rival that of Yale in the 1940s and 50s--when the focus of national swimming attention centered on New Haven and the Ivy League...
...remains to be seen whether Harvard can ever approach Yale's accomplishment of four national championships and ten runner-up finishes. But the Crimson squad is clearly on its way to becoming a real force in collegiate swimming...