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...three legs, the Ithacan's Larry Lattomus, Andy Dadegian, and Dick Stanton had maintained a five-yard lead over the Crimson's Zeb Warren, Dick Wharton, and Renny Little. On the final hand-off John Morris took off for Cornell and Dave Alpers for Harvard. Alpers, in his first race of the year, could not cut the deficit, and the Big Red won the race in 3:18 flat. Harvard's 3:18.9 was third best behind Princeton. Yale failed to place...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Cornell Edges Yale, Crimson In Relay to Win Heptagonals | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Scrum-half Nat Cooke made the first scoring attempt just before half time. He moved over from five-yard scrum. The final score came after 15 minutes of the second half when Marsh scored. Joe Ross converted from under the posts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby Team Beats Green For First Bermuda Crown | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...almost all-consuming task during the season. Once when asked how he felt about the sport, he answered with an anecdote: "A head cheerleader at Pitt was holding tryouts for new men. He told them that Pitt was on defense with the other team in possession inside Pitt's five-yard line. Then, he asked what cheers they would call for in such a situation. The first candidate picked, 'Hold that linel' The second said, 'Hold tight!' But the third yelled, 'Sock it to 'cm, Pitt!' and that's exactly the way I feel about football." After combatting alumni abuse...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: "Sock It to 'Em" | 11/20/1954 | See Source »

...five occasions the Yardlings brought the ball down within their opponents' five-yard line without scoring. Three other times the freshmen actually did score, only to have a penalty nullify the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Eleven Tops Tabor Academy, 13-7 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...Yardling A football team, twice failing to score from its opponent's five-yard line lost to an evenly-matched Dartmouth freshman squad, 7 to 2, yesterday on Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson '58 Football Team Loses, 7-2, in Opening Game | 10/23/1954 | See Source »

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