Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Other towns are adjusting to 2½ with cutbacks that could anger voters. In Springfield, where citizens supported 2½, officials are letting 46 vacancies in the fire and police departments go unfilled. In Braintree, School Superintendent John Monbouquette has threatened to shut down five elementary schools and eliminate all sports below the high school level. In Boston, Mayor Kevin White estimates that the current city budget of $862 million will have to be trimmed by $79 million, which, he warns, means cuts of 25% for police and fire services, 50% for health and hospitals and 60% for parks...
Oberg learned the fundamentals of rugby in the summer before his senior year at Conard High School playing with some friends from Springfield College, the subsequent founders of the West Hartford Yahoo rugby club. One of the few Americans to arrive at Harvard with rugby experience, the American History major started at "A" side hooker in the fall of his freshman, year and was elected captain in the spring of his Sophomore year...
...Harvard held its 1-0 lead against the Big Red and whipped the Eagles the following Tuesday (as it did, 6-0), it would have traveled to Springfield on October 16 with a 5-3-1 mark, and possibly, a mention in the national polls. More importantly, the squad would have been riding a three-game winning streak: it never won two in a row all year long) and might have converted that momentum into more offensive output against the Maroons...
...SPRINGFIELD--The Harvard field hockey team had no right to be here in the quarterfinals of the EAIAW championships, what with its 4-7-4 record which included an 0-for-1980 mark against Division I teams...
...Crimson must try to avoid any similar lapses tomorrow when they travelto Springfield to take on the University of New Hampshire in the first round of the EAIAW tournament. The stickwomen proved they could play with the nationally-ranked Wildcats earlier this season when the two teams tied and are looking for an upset...