Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week's Associated Press New England Football Poll was probably not a tremendous boost for the ego of Brown coach Len Jardine. Despite his team's 24-17 victory over Harvard Saturday, the Crimson is ranked two places ahead of the tenth-place Bruins...
Harvard, which held the top spot for two weeks at the start of the season, has steadily moved down, while Brown has hovered around the tenth position all fall. Two of the eighteen voters did not rate the 'Crimson as one of the area's top ten teams...
...Crimson doomed itself to its first losing season since 1957 by losing to Brown last week, so a loss to Yale will not significantly hurt it in the Ivy standings. But a Harvard victory, no matter how unimpressive, will salvage a measurable amount of self-respect for a squad that has suffered disappointment after disappointment throughout a season in which it was favored to defend a league title...
...Crimson is a heavy underdog at New Haven, however, and with good reason. Its defense has been deeply humiliated for the last two weeks. Princeton scored 51 honest points against it. And Brown, not the most terrifying offensive power in the Ivies, rolled over it for more than 400 yards total offense and four touchdowns...
...proclamations, and it is indeed, the end of the world. Why do the birds keep on singing? Why does the sea rush to shore? I may have often advised you incorrectly, but I have been right some of the time, and who can blame me for predicting Harvard over Brown? Even the four sports writers for the Brown Daily Herald picked the Cantabs, as they call John Yovicsin's boys. And as long as we've got space to fill, I might as well make four more guesses this week...