Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity's defense was, as usual, impenetrable. Lanny Keyes played a nearly perfect game at left fullback, and halfback Charlie Steele bottled up the Columbia attack on the right. At the one point when a sensational stop was needed, goalie Tom Bagnoli came through. In the fourth quarter, Lion center forward Haakan Rutchinsky had a clear shot from close in, but Bagnoli rose to the occasion with a spectacular diving save...
Left fullback Ekkehard Boellert was the big man in the Columbia defense. Physically prepossessing at 6 ft., 6 in. and 250 Ibs., the slow-moving Boellert seemed always to be in the right place, thanks to a kind of blind instinct. And his kicks regularly covered half the length of the field...
...Columbia's goalie, Stew Witt, put in a fine game, despite his difficulties with the hulking Boellert. It seemed that the big fullback was blocking the goalie's view of the game--often a fatal mistake. Throughout the game, conversations like the following went on between...
...Crimson football team vaulted into a tie for third place in the Ivy League Saturday, when it staved off a fourth quarter rally by Columbia, pushed over two touchdowns itself, and went on to win, 38 to 22. The Lion threat to repeat Cornell's upset victory of the previous week toughened the lax and complacent Crimson eleven, and irked it into running up the highest Crimson score since the varsity's 60-6 win over Massachusetts...
...games this year, the Crimson picked up an early lead in the first half, and then came out in the second lethargically daring the opposition to catch up. Columbia capitalized on the second half hangover with two scores, whittling the Crimson lead to six points...