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Many who prefer the gridiron in the fall return to the rugby field in the spring, so Harvard should come up with a fifteen par excellence. Rugby Club president Jeff Pochop, Mike Furley, and Gene Skowronski will all be immeasurable assets...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Team Closes Fall at 3-2; Spring Outlook Promising | 12/10/1963 | See Source »

...kicks by twisting a TV dial, do-it-yourself football seems absurdly out of date. But every Sunday, in dozens of U.S. cities, the sandlots are full of amateurs with a yen to work off frustrations, sweat out hangovers or relive their younger days of gridiron glory. They are plumbers, policemen, office workers, salesmen, doctors, teachers-in their 20s, 30s or even their 40s. A very few hope to catch the eye of a scout and follow in the footsteps of Baltimore Quarterback Johnny Unitas, who strode straight from a sandlot into the pros. But most are onetime high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Measured in Merthiolate | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...almost perfect Kirkland defense, combined with methodical offensive drives, let the Deacons down a previously unbeaten Leverett House football team 18-0 in Monday's game. The win created a virtual five-way tie for first place in the House gridiron standings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Team Upsets Leverett, 18-0, Throwing House Race Into Turmoil | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

Leverett House's football team yesterday dethroned Eliot's perennial gridiron kings, 14-0, handing the Elephants their first defeat in House play since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Eleven Garners Victory Over Elephants | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Modern rugby involves rules and terms far more complicated than the nineteenth century Englishman knew. The field itself is 75 yards wide and 150 yards long, almost twice the area of an American football gridiron. The two fields are laid out similarly except that the rugby goal posts are set right on the goal line...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Rugby Has Long Honorable History, Complicated Set of Rules, Terms | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

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