Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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His comments on the present state of Franco-American relations are at once perceptive and optimistic. "The idea of France's withdrawing from NATO is absurd. France is intelligent enough to realize that her security is to a large degree dependent on the American alliance. But De Gaulle thinks NATO...
One thing that may be said for this fall's football team, in addition to the fact that it was the best outfit John Yovicsin or anyone else has turned out at Harvard in some time, is that it was imaginative.
It requires imagination--for a team bouncing along with convincing victories over Penn, Princeton, and Yale--to take a Saturday off to lose to Brown. It requires imagination, too, to build a reputation for abysmal fourth quarters and then to demolish Yale with three fourth period touchdowns.
All this imagination adds up to a season that was both the Crimson's most satisfying in years and a curiously acute disappointment. To be the only team in the League to beat champion Penn, to upset both Princeton and Yale for the Big Three title, and then also to...
For the record, the 1959 varsity football team won six games and lost three (4-3 in the Ivy League), scored 177 points to its opponents' 101, rolled up 147 first downs to its opponents' 121. This was Harvard's first winning season since 1954 and also the Crimson's...