Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more sensational contests in this long series was the 50th anniversary meeting in 1932. A fired-up Big Green squad played the Crimson to a standstill for most of the game. Harvard's winning break came on the second-half kickoff, when Carl Pescosolido produced a 93-yard runback to provide the decisive tally in a 10-7 victory. As the Crimson put it, "Outrushed, outpassed, and outplayed by the Indians, the Harvard Varsity football team left the Stadium with a whole scalp only by providential intervention...
...Harvard-Dartmouth game was played in Hanover for the first time in 62 years, with the Crimson winning, 21 to 7. Five consecutive Green victories ensued, as Harvard football sank to its lowest ebb. Then the Crimson countered with two triumphs in a row, by scores of 26 to 19 and 20 to 14, before the Indians reversed the trend by scoring...
...third time in 73 seasons, the Crimson met Dartmouth in Hanover in 1955. Although the Crimson was strongly favored over the winless Indian eleven, the Green broke a string of 71 years without a home victory over Harvard with a stunning 14-9 upset. One of the wildest weekends in Dartmouth history resulted...
...week after absorbing a last-quarter, 26-20 defeat by Columbia, the varsity reared back to whip a strong Green eleven, 28 to 21, in 1956. The next fall, Harvard succumbed to the paralyzing Dartmouth offense led by halfbacks Jim Burke and Jake Crouthamel and lost, 26 to 0. Nevertheless, Crimson adherents could claim a larger victory in 1957--a glorious triumph in the Battle of the Big Drum. It was in that year that a group of Dartmouth students nearly succeeded in hauling away the Band's big brass drum, only to be halted by Band members wielding trumpets...
...Crimson entered the 1958 Dartmouth contest with faint hope. The Indians were a powerful aggregation, having lost only to Holy Cross and destined to become Ivy League champions. It seemed that the varsity, having won two in a row, had gone about as far as a Harvard team...