Word: ithaca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cornell and Harvard (along with Yale) were most people's pre-season favorites for the Ivy League football title, and today's game at Ithaca, the league opener for both clubs, was long ago billed as likely to settle the Ivy race before it even began...
...saddest stories have been written in Cambridge and Ithaca. Cornell had based much of its hopes on halfback Marcy Tino (a converted quarterback) and quarterback Dave McKelvey, the nucleus of the legaue's best backfield. But Tino suffered a pre-season knee injury and will not play at all this year, and in the first quarter of the Big Red's opener against Colgate, McKelvey broke an ankle. He too is out for the season. As for Harvard, Charlie Ravenel, the man who has made the Crimson move for the past three years, sprained his right knee against UMass last...
Still, if you're looking for a key Ivy game this week-end, the contest at Ithaca is as likely a candidate as any. Even with the injuries, both squads have a lot of talent. A victory here for either team would move it right back in the middle of the wacky league race...
...varsity soccer team will play Cornell in Ithaca this morning at 11:30 a.m. without the valuable services of fullback Sandy Cortesi. Several other key performers will be absent or in battered condition as the Crimson opens its defense of the Ivy League title...
...Someone. Among the guests at that party was a trustee of Ithaca's Cornell University named Victor Emanuel. Emanuel was also board chairman of Avco Corp., which was already deeply interested in the U.S. ICBM program. He fell into conversation about the project's difficulties-particularly that of testing re-entry techniques in earthly laboratories. Said one of the group, pointing to a heavy-shouldered man: "I believe we have someone right here who can help...