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...still at Dartmouth. "I'm confident we could hold our own against Big Ten competition," he muttered in the midst of the Big Green's undefeated season this fall. He was even more resolute that his Ivy League champions should be included in a post-season NCAA playoff for the national championship-should one ever materialize...
...only thing that people remember is their embarrassing 16-7 loss to the underdog New York Jets in the 1969 Super Bowl. This season, transferred to the American Football Conference in the newly reorganized N.F.L., the Colts have had to live with the charge that they sneaked into the playoffs only because they were in the league's weakest division. Even hometown fans seem unimpressed; when the Colts defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 17-0 in the A.F.C. divisional playoff game two weeks ago, there were more than 5,000 empty seats in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Such indignities...
...generally overrated in the national polls. But consider the record of the top four Ivy teams against non-league competition in the last two years. Last fall the first-division Ivy teams were 24-2-1 against non-league schools, including a 6-2 record in the NCAA playoff...
...more is at stake in today's match than just the Ivy championship. Brown coach Ciff Stevenson was very upset with the NCAA announcement of playoff games last Monday. The NCAA regulations maintain that four teams in the region must be chosen by November 9, but there is no stipulation that the four teams must be ranked immediately...
Harvard's varsity soccer team will play Worcester Polytechnical Institute in the first round of the NCAA New England Regionals next Tuesday, November 17, in Cambridge. In the second NCAA playoff, Brown will face Middlebury in Providence...