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What should have been a day of celebration for Harvard turned into a solemn affair Saturday, as Penn (5-4, 3-3 Ivy) upset the Crimson (7-2, 4-2 Ivy) 22-13 in front of 7,819 at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Senior running back Clifton Dawson eclipsed the Ivy League’s all-time career rushing mark with a 55-yard carry in the first quarter, finishing the day with 119 yards. But the Quakers and four first-half turnovers proved too much to overcome. After taking a 7-0 lead in the first on a five...
What should have been a day of celebration for Harvard turned into a solemn affair today, as Penn (5-4, 3-3 Ivy) upset the Crimson (7-2, 4-2 Ivy) 22-13 in front of 7,819 at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Penn. Senior running back Clifton Dawson eclipsed the Ivy League’s all-time rushing yards mark with a 55-yard carry in the first quarter on his way to 119 yards on the game. But the Quakers and four first-half turnovers proved too much for Harvard to overcome. After taking a 7-0 lead...
Confession of a movie-mad youth: I enjoyed seeing pictures of all kinds, and by my early teens had become a little connoisseur of certain actors, directors and genres-all American, since I was an American kid, and since Hollywood product dominated movie theaters. Then one day, at a Philadelphia art house in early 1959, I saw Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, and saw the light. The knight playing chess with Death, the panorama of medieval questing and suffering, the clowns and flagellants, all convinced me: this was art! There were movies, I knew, and now... there was film...
...move into China, where, thanks in part to Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, hoops is hotter than Sichuan cooking. There's still work to be done in Europe, even though it is now a source of many NBA players, including seven Frenchmen and six Slovenes. Before the season, the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns played exhibition games in Germany, a challenging NBA country, as part of a four-team, five-country full-court press of Europe -Italy, Spain, France and Russia were also hosts of training camps and games...
...let’s relish the moment. Let’s not let Marinaro’s bitterness spoil a historic occasion. And let’s not let a little stretch of I-95 stand between us and being on hand to witness it. To Philadelphia, friends, to Philadelphia...