Word: contests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Radcliffe and Harvard water polo teams, all set for their titanic clash last night, found themselves without a pool in which to hold the contest. All attempts to find a tank proved fruitless and plans for the meet had to be temporarily abandoned...
Cornell captured the 1948 Ivy League football championship, winning all of the four conference games. The Big Red played Pennsylvania, the last of its league foes, in the traditional Thanksgiving Day contest at Franklin Field decisively beating the Quakers 23 to 14. Harvard, Columbia, and Dartmouth also lost to the Ithacans earlier in the season. CORNELL 4 0 DARTMOUTH 4 2 PENN 3 1 HARVARD 3 3 PRINCETON 3 3 BROWN 1 2 YALE 1 4 COLUMBIA...
...detailed account of seventy-four years of Harvard football, including the highlights of every game and the lineups of each Yale contest, is the subject of "The History of Football at Harvard," a new book by Morris A. Beale. The volume also contains a foreword by Hamilton Fish '10, and an introduction by John Kieran...
Americans must care, not because they hanker to be loved by all the world (as some probers of the American psyche have suggested), but because the U.S. is engaged in a crucial contest with Soviet Russia for the world's faith and allegiance. Russian-born Newsman Andre Visson (now a U.S. citizen, columnist for the Washington Post and international affairs consultant for Reader's Digest) has tackled the task of exploring Europe's view of the U.S. His findings appeared last week in As Others See Us (Doubleday; $3). Visson reaches the conclusion that...
John Costi of Williams scored the deciding goal in the 35th second of a "sudden death" period. The match, an unusually freescoring contest, which was played at the Squadron A Armory on 94th st, and Madison ave., inaugurated this year's indoor season...