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...varsity had a comfortable 27-7 lead, thanks to brilliant play on the part of tailbacks Carroll Lowenstein and Dick Clasby, wing-back Bob Cowles, and fullback John Culver. But Brown roared back; with two minutes to play, the score was 27 to 20, and the Bruins had a first down on the Harvard six. The Crimson line, anchored by guard Bill Meigs, held on for the triumph...
Four straight Harvard losses followed, and the varsity finds itself today clearly favored for the first time since the period of darkness fell. It has been a dismal six years, to be sure, but things were not always thus...
...Saturday chronicled the first meeting of Harvard and Brown in football. In many ways it was the most satisfactory game of the season, not because Harvard made her this year's record in number of points won, but because the eleven was given an excellent test of its defensive work." So said the CRIMSON on Oct. 30, 1893, after the varsity had crushed the Bruins, 58 to 0, in the series inaugural...
...Zeigler's direction is often contrived. Most of his characters, when they deliver long speeches, pace up and down the stage, following practically the same pattern. And the play is considerably dulled by Ziegler's fascination with the fjords (which look very much like the Swiss Alps.) In the first act, an audience sitting out behind the set would hear almost as much of the important dialogue as the group in the Lowell Dining Room...
Rockefeller told a press conference that entry into the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary next March would be his first specific decision...