Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League's most important game of the year takes place this Friday evening when defending champion Columbia faces Princeton. Both teams have swept their first six league contests, and the winner of Friday's contest will have the inside shot for the title...
McMillian, currently tied for second in League scoring with a 19.5 points per game average, also excells on defense. In the Lion's most recent outing, against Yale, he held Eli captain Thatcher Shellby scoreless as Columbia went on to a 69-48 romp. McMillian is also the Lion's top rebounder, clearing the boards 137 times in their first 14 games...
...Princeton has gunners of its own in the League's top scorer, All-Ivy Jeff Petrie (22.2 points per game), and forward John Hummer, tenth in Ivy scoring with a 15.5 points per game output. And two-time All-Ivy center Chris Thomforde, 6-9, provides the muscle under the boards that the Tigers need to set up Petrie and Hummer...
...exhibit's eclectic approach. Most of the pictures are blown-up and attached to sprawling cubes or precarious towers. The result is threatening and chaotic. Similarly, as we enter the fifties, we are forced to trudge slowly in a narrow queue. It is all more than a game. It is participation in a way of life...
...course, even the most casual initiate into the mysteries of baseball knows that Joe Nuxhall was the youngest pitcher to appear in a major league game, but, Harvard sports tradition to the contrary, a mere appearance in a game does not constitute a win. The sorry fact is that in his premature debut with the Reds in 1944 at the age of 15, Nuxhall established a firm precedent for such successors as George Plimpton by undergoing a merciless pounding from the then as now champion Cardinals. He did not again appear on the major league scene until 1951, when...