Word: 95th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's snakebit freshman football team ran right smack into a fired-up Bullpup defense, losing 6-0 to Yale, in the 95th meeting of America's longest running freshman rivalry...
Since his undergraduate days, Sadow has been to every Harvard-Yale game. He supplements his first-hand knowledge of Harvard football by assiduously collecting articles and press clippings. He is especially devoted to the cause of freshman football. He points out that today will be the 95th time the Harvard and Yale freshmen have clashed. In that span, Harvard has won 44 games and Yale has won 44 games with six ties. "This is the rubber game," says Sadow...
Part of the 95th's problem is that it breezed into Washington with unrealistically high expectations?a display of naivete not confined to Capitol Hill. After eight quarrelsome years of Republican Presidents and Democratic majorities in Congress, there were high hopes of a new spirit of harmony between the White House and the Congress. Instead, Carter and the legislators were jaw to jaw from the very outset...
...some respects, the 95th is unique, and that has a great deal to do with its problems. It was elected in the psychological aftermath of the Viet Nam War and Watergate?wrenching historical episodes in which a complacent legislature failed until too late to question excesses of Executive authority. Thus Congress bristled when Carter indicated that he would decide what was best for the country and that Congress's role in accepting (or rejecting) those decisions was more a frustrating nuisance than a necessary part of democratic government...
...does the record of the 95th rate...