Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hapless Gold Coasters team, tied for last place in the House league, meets the rival Saybrook Slaves at 3:15 p.m. Saybrook has a passing attack--Bill Berkeley to ends Ed Schmultz and Gene Zabrowski--that provides most of its offense...
...hapless Gold Coasters team, tied for last place in the House league, meets the rival Saybrook Slaves at 3:15 p.m. Saybrook has a passing attack--Bill Berkeley to ends Ed Schmultz and Gene Zabrowski--that provides most of its offense...
...Lawrence ("Yogi") Berra, the New York Yankees' hard-hitting (27 homers) catcher, the Baseball Writers' poll as most valuable American League player of the year. In close second place: St. Louis Pitcher Ned Carver, who won 20 games for the hapless Browns. ¶ Colonel Humberto Mariles of the Mexican Army equestrian team, five of nine jumping contests, a record individual performance, at the National Horse Show; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. ¶Stanford University's football team, an inside track to the Rose Bowl by upsetting the University of Southern California with three fourth-quarter...
...ineffective." Harvard had not beaten Princeton in seven long, lean years. Sportswriters throughout the nation were calling the Tigers one of the best teams in the nation, and even the gamblers were reluctant to predict what the final outcome would be when the mighty Orange and Black team met "Hapless Harvard...
...Yale and her Big Three rivals conceived the monster that today is college football then retreated themselves to the palsied field of amateur football, halting only to buy an occasional Big-Time team. Present-day Stadium diehards might also be pleased to learn that from 1938 to 1941 the hapless Yalies won 7 and lost 24 games and still survived. Local readers will also find new background and stories of Crimson great like Percy Haughton who brought Harvard into the national spotlight, and walloped Yale 36 to 0, and 41 to 0 after allegedly strangling bulldog pups to work...