Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name "the sweetest" eleven he has ever coached, Harlow is obliged to combine his teams of 1937 which beat an undefeated Yale 13-6, and the 1941 squad, "dear to my heart because of adversity." But despite some of the drudge character of football today, Harlow is quick to insist that the has never gotten more out of any bunch than his present team. "They have given everything they have," he says. "They have done everything I have tod them...
...University that as disappointing as the season has been, we have a fine squad. We're not trying to alibi or explain-we simply mean to win. JOHN JUDKINS (manager): When we leave for New Haven this morning, there well be but one thought in our minds-beat Yale. The team is in the beat mental and physical shape of the season. If the student body will back us tomorrow, I'm sure we'll come out on the long end of the score...
After slamming the Bruins by 33 points more than Harvard did, the Bulldogs last week beat the Princeton team that topped the Crimson a couple of weeks ago. Only against the stumbling Indians from Dartmouth do Chief Boston's men hold a comparative edge. The Boston's men best them 40 to 0 while the Yalies won by a more modest...
Against Dartmouth, the single booter loss of the season, Coach MacDonald's team abandoned its game and tried to beat the Indians at their own plays. "Every year we seem to play our worst game against Dartmouth," MacDonald says. "Maybe some day we'll learn that the way to beat them is not to commit modified kinds of assault and battery on the playing field." The team now seems to accept the doctrine. One more game will tell...
...premiere of Oscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband, in 1895. A few dozen oldsters who responded got tickets to another premiere of An Ideal Husband, this time a movie starring Paulette Goddard and Hugh Williams. With this hoary pressagent's trick, Sir Alexander Korda helped beat the drums for his return to moviemaking-and the showing this week of the first movie in three years bearing his name. Tall, silver-haired, and at 54 none the worse for 29 hectic years in the international movie business, Korda was making a comeback from his second eclipse...