Word: craning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the second time in his three-year varsity career that Hornblower has been named Ivy Back of the Week. In last year's Cornell game be gained 138 yards, a personal best at that time, to crane the weekly honor. His 173 yards Saturday was a new high for Horublower. "Ray is playing as well as any back we've ever had." coach John Yoviesin said Sunday...
...Normally, Edward A. Crane '35 runs second to Sullivan, but in what was perhaps the biggest surprise in the returns he slipped to fifth in the initial count, polling 2080 votes as compared...
Observers of the count were puzzled by the large drop in Crane's vote. Although none would say for sure, they suggested a variety of causes-including Crane's strong anti-rent-control stand, a less active campaign, and the low voter turnout-for the drop...
Aside from Crane's fall in the standings, the biggest surprise in the elections was the low turnout; there were only about 25,000 votes cast on Tuesday, down for some 31,000 in 1967. Splinter candidates running on rent-control platforms generally did poorly, indicating that the bitter battle over the issue failed to draw many new voters to the polls...
Will incumbent Thomas H. D. Mahoney (now eighth with 1365) be able to pick up enough votes in the redistribution to make it onto the Council again? Normally, Mahoney picks up a large number of votes from Crane's surplus, but Crane's fall in the standings means there won't be such a surplus to go around this year...