Word: hometowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yardling Cricket Johnson got the call to defend Harvard's net and did an admirable job, turning away 60 percent of the Owls' attempts as the Crimson succumbed to the hometown favorites...
...trouncing of Dartmouth that secured Harvard's share of the crown. "The whole team played in a way that just embarrassed the whole Dartmouth team, "he remembers, calling it a wonderful win." The victory was even sweeter for Gunnoe since his best friend from his Towson, Md. hometown and four-year collegiate foe captained the Indians that year...
Guard Calvin Dixon, a Philadelphia native, who lost in front of his hometown fans for the third consecutive time in his three years at Harvard, put it more bluntly. "We get distracted too much, like we blame too much stuff on the officiating." He added, "Your concentration level has to be there--always thinking. Until we learn that, we'll never be a championship team...
Georgetown freshman center Pat Ewing, returned to his hometown last night and scored a collegiate career high 23 points, but he and the 13th-ranked Hoyas still fell to Boston College, 80-71. In pulling off the upset, the Eagles shot an amazing 71 percent from the field and had four players scoring in double figures. The win raised B.C.'s conference record to 5-6 and 14-8 overall, while Georgetown dropped...
...Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School cafeteria--the site of the Harvard-area Ward 6 caucus--only one sported a Tom O'Neill's button. The Dukakis slate prevailed with near unanimity, O'Neill's men insist they never expected to carry that "liberal activist" section of Tommy's hometown. But it's harder for them to explain why he couldn't sweep eastern and northern Cambridge, or why his supporters joined with King forces in his very own ward 10 "neighborhood slate"--a strategy some coordinators had said they would use only if it looked like Dukakis could...