Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy and Army, it's anybody's guess. Last year the team beat Navy by a close margin, but most of their team is back and has been taking advantage of pre-season sunny weather. Army should be easier. Like the Crimson, the Cadets have been hard hit by graduation and are just beginning to use their outdoor courts...
...years old Lowell House sophomore scored 942.1 points out of a possible 1050 in "compulsory" events. This was about 50 points below his expected showing, but was enough to give him a substantial margin over the rest of the field. Hayes Jenkins of Akron, Ohio, held second with 881.7 points, and G. Austin Helt and Richard Dwyer of Berkeley, California, were third and fourth, about ten points behind...
...HAVEN, March 12--"The home-court advantage" of New Haven's Payne Whitney Gymnasium proved just sufficient, by the narrowest possible margin, to enable Yale's basketball team to eke out a photo finish, one point revenge over the Crimson quintet Saturday night...
Luckless Bob Bramhall, Crimson substitute forward, was the villain and also almost the hero of the frenzied denouement. Trailing by a slight margin through most of the game, Harvard spurted ahead to a 55 to 53 load with three minutes to go. During the subsequent freeze attempt, Bramhall lost the ball in a wild shot at the Yale basket, and then fouled Anderson's successful lay-up to give the Elis their one-point advantage...
...half was all that kept his total from going much higher, though the injury wasn't serious enough to prevent his return for a devastating climax. Anderson's whirlwind drive under the basket typified the vastly superior speed of the Bulldog quintet--speed which should have insured a comfortable margin of victory but for Yale's poor shooting luck...