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Another Yardling, Keith Oberg (134 lbs.), the brother of Dartmouth's superlative gridiron fullback, is currently starting ahead of the injured Bill Mulvihill (6-5-1). The experienced junior will return to action in a few days, but Oberg has done so well that the veteran may have trouble winning his job back...
Harvard still led, 17-16, but heavyweight Craig Beling has been practicing less than two weeks after spending the fall on the gridiron, and the rustiness showed. The Crimson grappler quickly found himself in a hole, down 6-1. He just missed pinning his opponent in the final period, but ended up losing a wild...
Fortunately, there is little time to dwell on gridiron failures. Hockey season opens tonight. See you around Watson Rink, sports...
...very strong in football," noted Frank H.T. Rhodes, considering Cornell University's door mat status on the gridiron this season. "But we're very good at Frisbee." The British-born geologist, who this week will be formally inaugurated as Cornell's president, may not help his school's pigskin standings, but no matter. "The great universities are those in which people grow by contact with others in ever-widening circles," insisted Rhodes, 51, after suiting up in his new Cornell colors to throw the old platter around...
This compelling couplet is a eulogy to Arthur James Cumnock, who captained and coached the Harvard football eleven that defeated Yale in 1890. It was a supreme gridiron effort, as the Elis had triumphed in every game from 1876 to 1889 and the Yale squad that year included immortals W.W. "Pudge" Heffelfinger and Lee McClung. In commemoration of Comnock's triumph, a plaque was erected in his honor on Soldiers Field -- hence Comnock Fields...