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Title IX showed women had game

40th anniversary of landmark law to be celebrated

By Hannah Becker

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 02, 2012

When Westford Academy lacrosse coach Julie Devlin Olivier was a freshman entering Boston College in 1979, she sent the lacrosse coach a note alerting him of her arrival in Chestnut Hill and telling him she’d like to play.

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