Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year, the varsity roared back from this, its most crushing defeat to score a 28-0 win over the hapless Eli eleven. Quarterback Charlie Ravenel, a brilliant play-caller and runner all day long, gained 105 yards on 16 carries and put the Crimson ahead to stay by going over from the five as the gun sounded to end the first half. Chet Boulris, Larry Repsher, and Albie Cullen, all of whom will see action tomorrow, scored second-half touchdowns as Harvard won The Game for the first time in four seasons...
Finally, in 1901, the varsity cut loose with an overwhelming 48-0 trouncing of the hapless Bruins. However, the game was not as satisfactory as the score makes it seem. As the CRIMSON of Nov. 4, 1901, put it, "Harvard defeated Brown on Saturday by a score of 48 to 0, in an uninteresting and poorly played game. Harvard was not once held for downs, while Brown was able to gain a first down only once...
What did not happen on Thursday? Well, LeRoy Goss missed the 8:09 New York local from Bronxville. Any doubt that the train may have left is banished by a well-preserved photo of the empty tracks of the New York Central (looking south). Later that day the hapless Goss would fail to heed his wife's injunction to buy parakeet food. And so it goes. All in all, as Poe would say, a most immemorial day-and a satire to remember, at least for a few days...
Selected at random, the hapless four were the first of "several hundreds" whom the Finance Ministry plans to expose to publicity's unwelcome glare. But shrewd Antoine Pinay knew his compatriots too well to rely on shame alone: under new Finance Ministry regulations, police mounted guard over the homes of the four artless dodgers, prevented them from going to work, and withdrew their drivers' licenses. "They can appeal," said a Finance Ministry spokesman. "But we are refusing all settlement out of court. And they are all liable to at least six months in prison, plus fine, plus back...
This year the situation is reversed. The Indians, with only limited service from captain and star signal-caller Bill Gundy and all-Ivy halfback Jake Crouthamel, have been virtually impotent in losing to three strong opponents and tying hapless Brown...