Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson was somewhat less enthusiastic, but it won easily. Now the Terriers return to the Stadium this afternoon at 1:30, unbeaten in two games and hungry for a third victory, and Boston sportswriters have been billing the contest as a "battle of unbeatens." This is hardly the case. The Terriers have whipped both Colgate and Vermont. but in neither case did they defeat a strong football team. Harvard has beaten Holy Cross, but looked sluggish on offense...
...coach Larry Navianx admitted. everyone loves a crack at an Ivy school. especially Harvard. and the Terriers attach an incredible amount of significance to any B.U. Harvard contest. B. U. will. without doubt. be psychologically ready for Harvard. Harvard need not be as prepared emotionally. but it must get its offense untracked and moving early if it is to stifle any chances of an upset...
...Lindsay fallen that he lost the Republican primary this year to a quiet, unassertive, almost unknown state senator, John Marchi; as a result, the mayor is running for re-election as an independent. Marchi's victory last June makes the current campaign a three-cornered race, though the contest is primarily between Mario and the mayor. Procaccino started off far ahead, but his lead seems to be diminishing. Marchi is a bit off to one side in the contest, saying some of the same things as Procaccino, with more thought and less vehemence, and with a more traditionally conservative cast...
Though the contest involves factors unique to New York, the city's election is very much a frame in the national newsreel. Lindsay is the impatient man, the activist and agitator that Robert Kennedy became in his last year, the self-righteous, abrasive enemy of the way things are, who will make blunders and enemies but who will not placidly accept society's faults. He wants to prove the very problematical thesis that big cities are governable, given enough cash and imagination. It is a bad time for such men because many whites feel that there have been too many...
Flip Morgan, a husky offensive center, caught two touchdown passes to help Quincy's touch football team rout Eliot, holder of the Straus Cup, 45-13, yesterday afternoon in the first athletic contest of the intramural year...