Word: haplessness
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...Crimson harriers, debilitated by injury and illness for most of the year, finally ran a solid team race and smashed hapless Brown at Providence yesterday...
Today's game between Harvard and Columbia marks the 33rd meeting between the Ivy League rivals. Ho hum. The hapless Lions have beaten the Crimson only once in the last 12 years, and that win was by default. The Columbia contest is traditionally the warm-up game for Harvard's ensuing Ivy League schedule, and Crimson teams almost always end up trouncing the Lions. Last year...
...talking about why Harvard lost Saturday is a chore that must be done, if only in the hope that the same mistakes won't be repeated next week against hapless Columbia...
Other Ivy League stadiums were not as somber as Soldiers Field Saturday. Powerhouse offenses carried Yale and Cornell to easy victories over non-league opponents. Penn squeezed by Brown, 14-9; Dartmouth fell to Holy Cross, 14-3; and Princeton squashed hapless Columbia...
Three seasons of following the Crimson's brand of pigskin pitching have at least partially convinced me of my error. I still prefer those titanic struggles like last year's Notre Dame Orange Bowl victory over Alabama, but the 45-3 pastings of hapless opponents I can do without...