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...under 100 yards and moving the ball on the vaunted Eli defense, Harvard was unable to score on Yale for the second consecutive year. The bulldogs punched over 14 points in a span of 79 seconds early in the game and held on to beat the gridders for the 54th time in the 98-year history of The Game (eight games have been tied...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Elis Humble Listless Gridders, 28-0, Tie Dartmouth for Ivy League Title | 11/21/1981 | See Source »

Your American Scene article about Colonel Robert Shaw and the black regiment serving in the Civil War [April 6] failed to mention Sergeant William H. Carney. Carney was a black soldier in Shaw's 54th Regiment. On the night the colonel was killed, when the color bearer also fell, Carney seized the Stars and Stripes and moved to the front of the attack. After the order to retreat was sounded, Sergeant Carney, wounded three times, struggled back to the Union lines on one knee, still holding the flag high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1981 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...easily, dropped out of Harvard to try his hand at business (the Shaws had grown rich in the China trade). He was a serious youth but no zealot. Before the first Confederate shell hit Fort Sumter, however, Shaw had already enlisted. When Andrew offered him command of the black 54th, he wrote back saying he lacked experience. He was only 25. Then he sent a countermanding telegram of acceptance. "Now I feel ready to die," said his proud mother, a dedicated abolitionist, "for I see you willing to give support to the cause of truth that is lying crushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Boston: Aid and Comfort for the Shaw | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...been going in the NFL for about two or three years. Teams like the Cowboys don't use the Multiflex, but they use the same principals he's used." Indeed the Multiflex may not seem as radical as it once did, not because Restic has grown conservative in his 54th year, but because other teams, both college and pro, have started to see some of the same things. Still a long way from an orthodoxy--Restic's occasionally empty backfields and triple slots still cause heads to shake in wonder--the Multiflex has become a standard, a given...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: What Does the Multiflex Mean? | 10/10/1980 | See Source »

...mood in the 54th-floor boardroom of Chrysler Corp.'s offices atop the Pan Am building in Manhattan was understandably subdued. Sales were still slumping, costs continued to soar, and back in Detroit the company had earlier in the week announced a third-quarter deficit of $461 million, by far the largest quarterly loss in its troubled financial history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Loss, Bigger Bailout | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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