Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only short score of the afternoon was Bob Corry's quarterback sneak just four minutes before the end, making the final score 31 to 0. In completely outplaying the Crimson, Yale climaxed an undefeated season and won the junior varsity Big Three crown...
...title, since they now lead the League with four wins and one tie. The Crimson, tied for second with Pennsylvania at four wins and a loss, must win to stay alive. A Crimson victory would assure a tie for first place, and would lead to an undisputed crown if Cornell, playing on its home field, edges Penn on Saturday...
...Johannesburg. Faced with schism, the Archbishop of Canterbury warned Morris to withdraw or be considered excommunicated. Morris's answer did not sound as if he intended to give up his bishopric. He threatened to sue the Archbishop of Canterbury for libel and appeal the whole case to the Crown...
...Witnesses. The rehabilitation tribunal (formed partly on the instigation of Charles VII, who did not like to have it said that he had received his crown from a heretic) moved from place to place along the route that Joan herself had followed. Everywhere, it examined witnesses. Many of them were obviously as biased for her as her tormentors two decades before had been against her. Nevertheless, the record of their testimony brings together in a fascinating way the great and little figures who came in contact with Joan, and they tell about her in their own words, perhaps edited...
Thus the varsity will enter next Saturday's finale at New Haven with the same 3-3-1 record as last year, the same opportunity to keep Yale from the Ivy League crown (which the Elis can still win by beating Harvard if Dartmouth upsets Princeton), and the same chance to win the Big Three championship for itself...