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What does this show? That college humor, whose seminal form is the Harvard Band, serves a larger purpose than gratification of the perpetrators. The Hand proved that come what may on the gridiron. Harvard would cream the opposition at halftime. In a prosaic era of social pussyfooting and dingdong mentalities elsewhere the Band reminded us that Harvard was hard on the course of intellectual rigor. The Band even occasionally pricked our social conscience, but always our senses of tolerance and humor. Should the academic authorities to dickering here? I rather prefer your reported response of the Band's senior member...
Winthrop House--now designated as the team of the '80s by House football enthusiasts and analysts--is expected to make the biggest splash out there this year. After all, it won the championship last season, and its current lineup is bolstered by two former varsity gridiron kings. But what if Winthrop doesn't (heaven forbid) take the title this time around? That improbable question can be answered by looking to the Year of the Point...
...instead they had brunch. "We had no business agenda, it was the farthest thing from our minds," insisted President Bok Saturday morning at the end of a pre-football game meal just outside Harvard Stadium. The two hour event, co-sponsored by Harvard and its gridiron opponent University of Massachusetts was staged in honor of the Massachusetts legislature...
...going to be the kind of year when a field goal or an untimely penalty can decide the Ivy League football championship. 1982 marked only the third time in Ivy history that three teams shared a football championship, but this year's battle for gridiron supremacy should be as hotly contested. No fewer than four teams can stake a respectable claim to be the preseason favorite, and if Harvard, Yale. Penn and Dartmouth stumble, don't be too surprised if Brown or Cornell rises out of the second division to grab the title. Only Princeton and Columbia seem inescapably bound...
...football team tied Dartmouth and Penn for its first Ivy championship since 1975 and its fifth in the 28 years of league gridiron action...