Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26--Second string quarterback George Koval pulled Penn from a two touchdown deficit today, throwing three scoring passes in a 28-13 win over traditional rival Cornell and giving the Quakers the 1959 Ivy League football championship...
Even at the all-important Yale encounter at 2 p.m. in New Haven, with the Ivy championship at stake, only 100 hardy followers bothered to watch. Freshman and J.V. football each drew many more spectators, and even some of the House contests rivaled what should have been the day's feature attraction...
Frustrated by Dunster in the tackle football playoffs, Eliot House quashed the Funsters in a 3-0 soccer championship fray. Alex Lagerudakis led the Eliot booters to a 5-0-3 record. Dunster thus finished second...
...nothing over their faces to protect them from a hard-rubber puck driven at speeds up to 100 m.p.h. Result: pro goalies regularly contract what the trade calls "rubber shock" (defined by one player as "first cousin to shell shock"), have even skated off the ice bewildered during championship games. Over the years, Plante had faced up to the attack without flinching, and paid the price: broken nose, hairline fracture of the skull, cracks in both cheekbones, some 150 stitches for assorted gashes, from sticks and skates as well as pucks...
...until Iowa's Evashevski adopted the system in 1956 and went on to win two Big Ten championships and two Rose Bowl games in three seasons did the winged T become famous. Impressed, L.S.U.'s Dietzel last year adopted the attack, won ten straight, and the national championship...