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Seeded fourth in the 12-team national tourney, the Ivy champion Crimson squad will meet the winner of the first-round University of Massachusetts-Yale showdown Saturday in The Stadium, with the victor of the 50-minute contest advancing to the Final Four the following weekend...
...Crimson will put a 10-1 record that includes a 10 game winning streak on the line in tomorrow's showdown at Dartmouth Harvard is also 4-0 in the Ivies and just one win away from clinching its fourth straight Ivy League title...
Slip. Sliding away all over Soldiers Field, the Crimson manhandled a B.U. squad many had thought would he a good test before Saturday's showdown...
...plot a second-half strategy to win the Democratic presidential nomination. Walter Mondale looked back at the grueling, wildly erratic first half and declared in Philadelphia: "I have shown that I have the guts and the steel necessary to fight back under tough circumstances." Looking toward the imminent showdown, Gary Hart vowed at a pep rally in Denver: "When we come back out for the second half, you're going to see some long bombs, you're going to see some end runs, you're going to see some flat passes and some reverses...
...when the Crimson travels to New Haven Saturday the winner of the Harvard Yale showdown will undoubtedly be heavily favored to cop the league crown...