Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It was in the fall of 1934--the fresh-man of the class of 1938--after the college term had settled into routine, that Harvard and Princeton smoothed over an eight year breach in athletic relations, meeting on the gridiron for the first time since 1926. Back in the 'twenties...
Undergraduates cooked up another campaign that year--for the official formation of the Ivy League. Along with the six other Ivy student newspapers, the CRIMSON ran a front-page editorial arguing that no other measure would preserve amateurism in college football. The seven college athletic directors agreed to meet on...
But if the academic year was calm, the athletic year was not. In their senior year the class of 1938 at last beat Princeton, 34-6, and--mirabile dictu-Dock Harlow's machine rallied past Yale in the snow and the rain, 13-6, When Frank Foley scored the tie...
Cracks in the Wall. Despite disappointments in the President's failure to rally the great moral and political force that his office and prestige can command, Negroes could count some breakthroughs last week. The University of Kentucky became the first school in the Southeastern Conference to open its athletic...
Is it art? Science? Sport? "When you're playing for the world championship, " says Tigran Petrosyan, 33, "chess may start out as an art or a science. But in the end, physical endurance is so important that it becomes an athletic event." And so it was last week-at...