Word: crimsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the opening game against Boston College only a week away, there is strong indication that this year's hockey team will prove at least as successful as the Crimson eleven...
While the rookies develop and gain game experience, the team will be seriously hampered by the graduation of Dave Veitze, Bud Hizginbottom, and Dick Fischer, the starting line a year ago. However, Weiland feels, if the Crimson can get through its opening contests with reasonable success, it has an excellent chance to regain the Ivy League title...
...this imagination adds up to a season that was both the Crimson's most satisfying in years and a curiously acute disappointment. To be the only team in the League to beat champion Penn, to upset both Princeton and Yale for the Big Three title, and then also to lose ingloriously to mediocre teams like Cornell and Brown--the final impression is a mixture of pleasure at a good season and disappointment at a couple of near-misses...
...record, the 1959 varsity football team won six games and lost three (4-3 in the Ivy League), scored 177 points to its opponents' 101, rolled up 147 first downs to its opponents' 121. This was Harvard's first winning season since 1954 and also the Crimson's first Big Three title since that year; 1959 also marked the first time Harvard has finished in the first division since the Ivy League began round-robin play three years...
...backfield, from which almost every one of the League's top performers is graduating. (Chet Boulris, Dartmouth's Bill Gundy and Jake Crouthamel, Brown's Paul Choquette, Yale's Rich Winkler, Penn's Fred Doelling, Princeton's Dan Sachs, Cornell's Marcy Tino and Phil Taylor). In addition, the Crimson is losing starters Albie Cullen and Sam Halaby...