Word: altos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone on the stage of Sanders Theater used his talents with such comprehension and conviction as alto Anne Talbot, last night's Messiah would have been clearly defined and tremendously powerful. But the performance lacked broad conception and sustain-force, not for any lack of ability which was remarkably well distributed; but rather for want of appreciation of what was being related...
...Harvard and Yale, no longer names to conjure with in football, need not care what people think in New York or Ann Arbor or Palo Alto today. The sixty thousand here in the Bowl won't care, that's for sure; players and coaches too can forget the people outside for two hours this afternoon...
Harvard thus ended a losing streak which began five weeks ago at Palo Alto and extended through the next four games. For the visitors from Worcester, it marked the sixth straight setback of a victoryless season...
Like this year's slate, the 1950 schedule includes no easy games. Coach Art Valpey's third season in Cambridge opens with a six-week home stand, starting on September 30 when Stanford repays the visit Harvard made to Palo Alto last month. The Indians have played once before in the Stadium, in 1931, but their opponent was Dartmouth...
...weakness was a frightening susceptibility to end sweeps and, granted that Columbia has no backs to match the ones Harvard saw racing around at Palo Alto, a similar defensive flaw today could easily put the kibosh on the Crimson's hopes for its first victory of the season. The Lions turned the Amherst ends with relative ease last week. Today their first string fullback, who was ineligible for the Lord Jeff game, will be available and at the same time the Harvard line will not be at full strength...