Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freshman squad lost to the Green 25 to 30, although Harvard captain Ed Hamlin placed first. His teammates gave him meager support, as Dartmouth runners took second, third, and fourth positions...
...Crimson suffered its first beating at the hands of a Dartmouth eleven. The Indians took a 6-0 lead on a touchdown and conversion after five minutes of the first quarter, and held the varsity on even terms until they pushed over another touchdown late in the fourth period. It was not a particularly good year for the Crimson; the team lost to Yale that fall...
...more. The game seemed to be going just about as predicted. But Crimson halfback Chet Boulris returned the second-half kickoff to his own 43, and from there quarterback Charlie Ravenel led a 57-yard touch-down march. Ravenel himself went over from the one-yard line on a fourth down play. The spectators in the stands anxiously awaited the Dartmouth counter-attack...
With ten minutes gone in the fourth quarter, however, varsity end Hank Keohane intercepted a Dartmouth pass on the Green 16, and three plays later Boulris bulled over from the five for the Crimson's winning score. The varsity's triple-threat halfback added the two points, and Harvard had only to hold off the Indians for 4:20 to clinch its most exciting win in many years. Coach John Yovicsin got a free ride to the locker room after the game...
Just as it seemed all too certain that the varsity would have to settle for its fourth tie in eight games, the Crimson left halfback broke the game wide open. After 15 minutes of the fourth period with the game deadlocked and both teams tiring, a Dartmouth violation deep in its own territory set up the free kick. McCall got ready, seemed to look around for a place to pass, and then suddenly fired a bullet shot over the heads of his teammates and past goalie Dick Ellington, who lunged for the ball in vain...