Word: duel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's been around for almost 350 years, and some great things have happened here. Recently, some of the outstanding events have been the 1943 fencing duel with real swords on a Weld stairway and the Harvard-Yale football game in 1968. But anyone at Rindge that May 2 will vow that what happened there that night constituted Harvard's finest five hours. Some members of the crowd were so overcome that they were talking about turning Harvard into a grease state...
After walking two in the first inning. Collins retired 16 consecutive batters, allowing baserunners only on two Harvard infield errors. But Army's Bill Lord held the Crimson to three hits throughout the first five innings to extend the scoreless pitchers' duel into the sixth...
After the third inning, the game became a pitcher's duel. Gillis held the Crimson to six hits through the eighth, while Collins went four innings without yielding...
...second game was a batting duel. Harvard led. 5-4 after two innings. The Crimson broke the game open in the fourth inning with four runs on three hits and three errors...
Richard Burton told David Frost on TV that his worst moment as an actor was a long-ago scene as Prince Hal in Shakespeare's Henry IV. After some lusty drinking and a prolonged period onstage, Burton wet his chain mail. He then played a duel scene with Sir Michael Redgrave, as Hotspur, and broke his sword. Forced to win the duel without a blade, he hoisted the bulky knight to his shoulder and tossed him across the stage. "Dear boy," said Sir Michael backstage, "I thought you were sweating rather more than usual...