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Also, Mike Horton's fifth finishing in the 50-yard dash, Sam Butler's fourth in a strong field of hurdlers, Ric Rojas's fourth in the two-mile, and Jeff Campbell's fifth in the mile, considerably bolstered Harvard's total point tally...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Harvard Thinclads Gain Greater Boston Title, Defeat Rivals Northeastern and Boston College | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Invented in 1970 by a Cambridge University mathematician named John Horton Conway and popularized by Mathematical Games Expert Martin Gardner in the pages of Scientific American, Life is a kind of solitaire played by one person on a checkerboard or graph paper, or indeed any gridlike field that contains adjoining squares of equal size. The playing pieces, or counters, are chips (any number) that are placed at random on squares across the board. They are then manipulated by what Conway calls his three "genetic laws"-for birth, death and survival. Under the Law of Birth, each empty square adjoined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flop of the Century? | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

Leckie then scored his second goal of the game for the Crimson at 10:35. Bill Horton followed one minute later with a spectacular rush and a goal to cut the deficit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Icemen Stifle Rally; Yardlings Drop First, 6-4 | 12/13/1973 | See Source »

Goals in the first period were also scored by Bill Horton, the leading scorer on the team going into the game, and Bullard, who collected his first of the game late in the period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Freshmen Trounce Port Huron Squad | 12/11/1973 | See Source »

...places, in search of players. The faltering Toronto Maple Leafs recruited two Swedes. The teams have also turned to the raw and the overripe. N.H.L. rosters this year contain 60 rookies, some of them getting $100,000 or more. At the other end of the age scale, Tim Horton, 43, has been lured out of retirement to steady a young Buffalo Sabres defense. So has Gordie Howe, 45, the legendary Detroit Red Wings star, who could not resist a big contract from the W.H.A. Houston Aeros to form the only father-son trio in hockey with his sons Marty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Thin Ice | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

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