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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard, which played magnificently Tuesday in losing 1 to 0 to champion Connecticut, played a different brand of ball yesterday. After working fairly well in the first pieces, the team just seemed to go to pieces for the rest of the game, neglecting teamwork when at midfield and forgetting careful shooting when in the Dartmouth crease. "It wasn't a matter of being outclassed," Coach Bruce Munro said after the game. "We were just plain outscrapped...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Dartmouth Wins, 3-0, Over Soccer Varsity | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

Paced by Captain Stan Waterman, the defending heptagonal cross country champion, the Dartmouth varsity took six out of the first seven places in the meet. Waterman took first with the time of 22:43, continuing his undefeated record in college dual competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, 1953 Harriers Lost To Dartmouth | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

Coach Bruce Munro's Crimson will enter the game with the prestige of losing to Connecticut, 1 to 0. Prestige, that is, because national champion Connecticut was able to edge out the varsity only by virtue of a successful direct penalty kick when the teams met Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Team Meets Indians As Slight Favorite at 2 p.m. | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

After this, we know nothing, but we presume the moose died a natural death, still the uncrowned champion of all trained moose and ostriches in existence...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

...varsity soccer team played its best game of the season yesterday, but that wasn't good enough to beat the national champion University of Connecticut squad. The Blue and White nipped the Crimson, 1 to 0, at Storrn, Conn., on a second-period penalty shot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Free Shot Gives Connecticut 1-0 Win Over Soccer Team | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

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