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Bill Walton's next-to-last game for UCLA was nearly his last. North Carolina State beat the Bruins in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament in 1974. It was the first time UCLA would not play in the championship contest in almost a decade...
...last time Harvard visited Ithaca, N.Y., the Crimson escaped with a 3-3 tie thanks to a 44-yd. field goal on the next-to-last play of the game...
Regarding the April 3 article "Every Town is Our Town," it is format to see that he still has none of the "mutual respect" he so piously mentions in his last paragraph. I refer, of course, to his line in the next-to-last paragraph that "they like to assure me that all of us here at Harvard are born-and-bred snobs just as they assume that we all live on Beacon Hill and who prepped at Andover and Exeter." Mr. Wurf is implying that all those who live on Beacon Hill and who prepped at Andover and Exeter...
This year, though, the squad that many considered the finest in Mabrey's tenure finished a disappointing 5-10, and fell to next-to-last place in the Ivy League...
Suddenly, as if struck by lightening, Bunney breezes along the field's outside past all competition, sometimes running as far out as the second or third track during the course of the next-to-last curve before the finish...