Word: forfeits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is unfortunately overshadowed by a continuous din of catcalls directed at the officials and rival players. This petulant display of sportsmanship reached a high point in last season's Columbia game. The referee had to warn the locals that unless the Bronx cheers stopped Columbia would win by forfeit. It's a good thing the Dartmouth boys only show up for football games...
Varsity wrestlers handed Tufts a five-point gift on a forfeit, allowed the Jumbos to pile up an impressive early lead, and then scored four straight pins to win, 23 to 11, last night at the Blockhouse...
Eddle Bursk at 123 dropped a tough 3 to 1 decision, and the Crimson gave Tufts five points on a forfeit when illness prevented 120-pound Bud Adams from appearing...
...funnyman moderator (Robert Q. Lewis), and a succession of contestants, in this case individuals whose names are the same as those of living & dead celebrities (among last week's mystery contestants: Jane Russell, a Long Island saleswoman). Each panelist is allowed ten questions, pays a $25 forfeit for failing to guess the right name...
...Prompting two former chairmen of the Senate's Crime Investigating Committee, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Maryland's Herbert O'Conor, to put up a "friendly forfeit": a coonskin cap v. a barrel of oysters...