Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even before the game ended, it was all anticlimax. What was a "measly old Ivy title," wailed the Daily Princetonian, when up at New Haven a Yale team that had whipped Princeton and tied Dartmouth was playing Harvard for the Big Three championship? What, indeed? asked proper Elis, who were determined to prove they were best in the league. In the long, 82-year history of "The Game," no Yalemen ever had so satisfying an afternoon. And few Yale teams ever put on so polished a performance. Incredibly calm and casual, Eli Quarterback Dick Winterbauer stood up behind his fine...
Last week Arnold Fenton went to Palmer Stadium to watch Princeton drub Dartmouth for the Ivy League championship (see above) and to keep a teacher's eye on Prize Pupil Bill Gundy. Dartmouth's punter, who worked with him for two long months last summer. Fenton had drilled the erratic Gundy on his coordination, changed him into one of the best punters in the East this fall. In the debacle. Gundy still managed to out-punt Princeton by seven yards a try. "When one of my boys like Bill gets off a good one." chuckled Father Fenton...
...teams are competing in the first half of a two-round tournament. In February, the top division of each league will join together, while the bottom five teams of each league will compete among themselves. The winners of the two rounds will then play for the overall championship...
...While Australia's Ashley Cooper was whipping his countryman, Neale Fraser, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, for the New South Wales singles championship, touring U.S. tennists made the most of their unexpected freedom. All had long since been eliminated from the tournament, so Davis Cup Captain Bill Talbert turned his men to for some intensive practice. There is only one short month to go before they try to recapture the big silver punch bowl -too little time for Bill Talbert's talent-starved team...
Trumbull, the Yale championship winner, tallied first in the third quarter after a scoreless first half. Minutes later, Dunster evened the score when George Herrick Intercepted an Eli pass and ran 40 yards for a touchdown...