Word: crimsoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ITHACA, N.Y.--Harvard football fans' worst nightmares almost came true today, as the Crimson's third quarterback of the season, Mike Smerczynski, was sacked in the second quarter. Smerczynski limped off the field, but the injury is only a sprain and he may play next week...
...other news, a frozen and downtrodden Crimson football squad dropped an embarrassing 41-14 contest this afternoon here at Schoellkopf field...
With 9000 fans screaming "Goodbye Harvard," the Big Red twisted the knife ever deeper, adding a 79-yd. touchdown bomb from third-string quarterback Chris Metz to a streaking Jim Burry with less than a minute to play. The final score capped an afternoon that Crimson fans and players will want to forget quickly...
Harvard won the toss and elected to kick off. Cornell's game plan was to match its strength--rushing--against the Crimson's strength--rushing defense...
...almost frantic bids for a piece of the prestigious memorial. President Robert C. Wood of the University of Massachusetts was the first of 175 interested parties out of the starting blocks, issuing an invitiation to the corporation to come to either the UMass Boston or Amherst campus. Wood, The Crimson reported, "launched a massive campaign to bring the memorial to UMass even when the odds were ridiculously stacked against him." It was early 1975. Charles U. Daly, then vice president for government and community affairs, commented: "Ten years ago if someone put forward the Columbia Point site it would have...