Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three weeks ago football's little men completed their 21st organized season when Princeton edged Rutgers for the crown of the Eastern Intercollegiate 150-Pound Football League. While big-time All-Americans and local unsung heroes monopolized the Cambridge scene, this victory went largely unnoticed, particularly since the Crimson had given up lightweight football over 20 years...
...around Princeton and New Brunswick, N.J.--where big-time, heavyweight competition began in 1869 and organized lightweight football held its first championship in 1934--the game rated banner headlines. For local 150-pound enthusiasts, it was a repeat of the first championship between these two elevens. That year Rutgers played to the crown before 10,000, defeating Princeton, and carrying off honors in the newly-organized 150-pound football league...
...Dartmouth and Columbia games were close, just close enough, in fact, to convince all too many Harvard fans that the difference between victory and defeat was sitting in an overcoat in front of the Harvard bench. But through all the local pessimism Jordan remained confident of this team, never hedging from his prediction that Harvard would finish the season strongly and never trying to make the team play ahead of its pace...
Saturday's victory did more than bring the Big Three title to Cambridge or enable Jordan for the second year in a row to leave the Stadium on top of his players' shoulders. It also entered in the record books and the public mind something apparent on the local if not the metropolitan scene--the restoration of Harvard football respectability. It has taken Jordan five years to get there, and the kind of solid consistent football played Saturday and all season indicates that it will take even longer to be toppled...