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Harvard's annual battle with Yale is only one of the hundreds of hard-fought rivalries in the country. Almost every school has a rivalry, and most of them are centered on football. Rivalries take three general forms. League or conference rivalries, like Harvard and Yale, are usually the last game of the year and can make or break a season. Regional or instate rivalries like Texas-Oklahoma or Miami-Florida can be among the most hotly contested. Most of the students have friends at the other schools, and the coaches annually vie for the best recruits in the area...
Harvard found its form in the second and early third periods, earning six straight tallies and a 7-1 lead. The rally was capped by a perfect 20-yd. Munatones-to-Fasi pass for a breakaway goal. After the stars were taken out, the Minutemen fought back, and the game ended...
With only 34 seconds left, Catliff added a fourth Crimson tally on an indirect kick, and the booters came away with a big win in a hard fought contest...
...billion tons rapidly envelops the Northern Hemisphere and swiftly swirls into the Southern Hemisphere as well, blocking out 90% or more of the sun's light. Surface temperatures plunge to an average of -13° F and remain below freezing for three months, even if the war is fought in the Northern Hemisphere summer. Nothing can grow; those humans who survive the blast and radiation of the explosions freeze or starve to death...
...full ten days be fore the Allied invasion of Sicily. Ike outlined in detail which divisions would land where so that the press could follow the campaign intelligently. Correspondents could not even hint of the invasion through censorship, but nobody expected them to: trust was mutual. Korea was fought without censorship. Yet James A. Bell, who covered No Name Ridge and other battles for TIME, was among cor respondents told days in advance of the landing at Inchon, which proved to be one of the great tactical surprises...