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...three-way meet with the Tigers and Yale. By triangular scoring, the Crimson finished third, with 48 points, against Princeton's 47 and Yale's 26. Traditionally, though, the contest is scored as three dual meets, although none of the conditions of a two-team clash prevails. In its head-to-head encounter with the Tigers, the Crimson could claim...
...Game no longer decides the national championship, as it did for so many years. Nor does the Harvard-Yale contest now pit the country's greatest players against each other in head-to-head competition, as was the case for three fabulous seasons between 1929 and 1931. In those last glorious days of football at the two colleges Crimson quarterback Barry Wood and Eli halfback Albie Booth staged battles that were watched by every sport fan in the land. Still, when the ancient opponents take the field each year, a certain element exists which the trumped...
...head-to-head competition with John F. Kennedy '40, Senator from Massachusetts, Nixon came out ahead in 13 of the 16 cities. Rockefeller managed only a split with the front-running Democratic candidate...
...killed in 1957, and Argentina's five-time world champion, aging (47) Juan Manuel Fangio, announced this summer that he is retiring. Today, dominance in racing belongs to the British, especially to flaxen-haired, temperamental Mike Hawthorn, 29, and balding, easygoing Stirling Moss, 28. The two are battling head-to-head for the world driving championship...
...John L. Lewis is like an ominous figure in a recurrent bad dream. This week the dream and the figure were back again in their most nightmarish aspect. With a coal strike threatened next weekend, John Lewis had once again maneuvered the President of the U.S. into a head-to-head personal fight...