Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard football team watched its 6-2 halftime lead dissolve in the first five-and-a-half minutes of the third period, it became increasingly clear that Brown Stadium was more fit for a duck crossing than a gridiron on Saturday. As Brown coach John Anderson said after the game, "It was a quagmire before we even started...
While rain and mud may hold back a ground and cause fumbles, the usual fear of an offense under such conditions is interceptions. For Harvard, the ground game never got cranked up and quarterback Burke St. John was forced...
Elsewhere in the Ivies, Princeton swamped Penn, 38-10, and Dartmouth whitewashed Columbia 17-0. Brown, with its 23-14 victory over Harvard, remains tied with Princeton, one game behind undefeated Yale...
...YEARS LATER this memory couldn't have been farther from George Scott's eyes, or closer to Carl Yastrzemski's. Like one man. One frustrated, effaced, proud, loser of a man, whose endless beers never turn to champagne in the Causeway St. bar after the game, after the seasons, ever since 1918. Up on the wall behind the bartender and mountains of bottles are portraits of Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Ted Williams, Jim Lonborg, Carl Yastrzemski, and John F. Kennedy. They all got away...
...when the seventh game is played Tuesday, there's one ground rule to remember--as baseball mentors have said for a century, "This is a team effort...