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...star quarterback Brian Dowling, who hadn’t lost a game since the seventh grade and had been affectionately nicknamed by the Yale faithful as “God.”Falling behind by 22 points in the second quarter, Harvard was overwhelmed for much of the contest. Bringing in backup quarterback Frank K. Champi ’70 near the end of the first half provided an offensive spark, but the Crimson was still far behind late in the fourth quarter, setting up the film’s climactic ending. Delving deeper than just a play...
...libertarian and don't abide free government handouts, so I agree to an extent with Michael Grunwald's argument for farm-bill revision [Nov. 17]. However, I must contest some of his findings. He states, "The median farmer's net worth is five times the median American's." Of course it is--farmers own tons of acres; but let's see you try to operate your business when all that net worth is tied up in land. In addition, he claims, "the biofuel boom is also jacking up the price of grain." Yet the price of corn has fallen...
...level of intensity surrounding the contest would be too contingent on where its participants are positioned in the Ivy League standings and what each team has to lose...
Elections for other positions then began, since PBHA runs its elections on a drop-down system where losing candidates can run for other posts. But that night, Kelley said he would exercise a club bylaw that allows a candidate to contest the results...
...coaching staff. I know one thing. This may be as hungry a Yale team as we’ve ever seen, so we’d better be hungrier.”The Crimson players have wisely stuck with the company line, repeating that this weekend’s contest is just another game. But tomorrow afternoon, as the school’s third Ivy championship in the past five years hangs in the balance, their intensity will indicate that it is much, much more—after all, it’s The Game...