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Although over twelve of Walter Camp's All-Americans confronted each other on the field, only Yale's old Mr. Everything, captain Ted Coy, starred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1909: Unbeaten Teams and Hoopla, But What a Lousy Football Game! | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Yale used five key penalties against Harvard and Coy's high punts to keep the Crimson in poor field position, but the Elis could never muster a drive of their own to penetrate farther than the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1909: Unbeaten Teams and Hoopla, But What a Lousy Football Game! | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Finally very late in the first half, Coy drop-kicked a 29-yard field goal through the uprights. Yale stormed back in the second half to cap another drive to Harvard's 32 with Coy's second three-pointer of the day, and that was enough to put an end to Harvard's undefeated record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1909: Unbeaten Teams and Hoopla, But What a Lousy Football Game! | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...Lebanese immigrant, Tiny was born as Herbert Khaury in New York City 35 or 40 years ago (he is coy about his exact age). After high school, he began performing at night under such names as Larry Love and Deny Dover in dreary Greenwich Village bars. Since becoming a regular two years ago at a midtown nightspot called The Scene, he has risen to the status of court jester in the local realm of camp. Now six network television appearances, and the recent release of his first record album, have helped place him in a cultish tradition, that goes back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: The Purity of Madness | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

Surgeon Thomas LaFarge also brought moments of wit to The Lampoon with his slogan "Forget Vietnam! See The Meat-Cleaver Man!" and his description and catalogue of mutilations that can spare American youth "the indignities of conscription." Similarly revivifying was the poem inspired by Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" which Dr. La Farge dedicated to the CRIMSON...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: The Lampoon | 5/7/1968 | See Source »

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