Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Veteran spectators who watched Cornell pull out a last-gasp triumph over the varsity last Saturday may have recalled another game with a similar unhappy ending -- the Columbia contest of 1956. In that game little Claude Benham tossed a 69-yard scoring pass to halfback Ed Spraker with less than three minutes remaining and gave Columbia a 26-20 victory...
...football at Harvard was just beginning to capture the fancy of the undergraduates; it was in that year that the Crimson promoted the sport to a place in its "Sporting Column," lifting it from the department entitled "Brevities." On the eve of the Columbia contest, the Crimson observed, "The men do not fall on the ball enough; they must get accustomed to throwing themselves on the ball, instead of dancing round outside of a scrimmage, and expecting the ball to be kicked out to them ... Our men do not tackle hard enough; they should try to throw their man every...
...even contest that see-sawed back and forth for 98 minutes, the varsity soccer team and the Williams Ephmen fought to a scoreless tie here yesterday. In the Ephs the Crimson met a determined, well-trained eleven, and the resulting struggle was a battle of equals in every respect...
...current protests against the loyalty oath and affidavit in the National Defense Education Act seem to assume that the issue has only one side--as if it were merely a contest between the enlightened and the ignorant, or a defense against perversity. But every social and political issue, just by its nature as social or political, has two sides. And since the understanding of any such issue requires a grasp of the essential validity of both sides, I should like to say a word for the neglected other side of the present issue...
Harvard voters undoubtedly have some sympathy for the rhino romp that marked the Sao Paulo contest. Elections on campus are often conducted in the same sort of spirit, and yield only slightly more fruitful results. Lamont DuPont had thinner skin and a less prominent nose than Carareco, the rhinoceros, but he, too, easily defeated a field of less illustrious candidates. Pogo once roused vigorous support in a local campaign, too vigorous for many. It is good, but a little sad, to commemorate the election of the rhinoceros in another country; for it recalls a day when students here fought...