Word: pitt
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Last year Harvard scored an ignominious 7 points in the tournament as only Brooks and Chace survived their first-round matches. Lehigh edged Pitt for the championship 58-57, and the nearest Ivy team was Cornell, in seventh place with 37 points...
...epic. He had been his nation's savior, Britain's greatest statesman, leader and inspiration of the free world. In war and diplomacy, oratory and literature, above all in his delineation of Western values, his achievements place him honorably in the company of Pericles and the elder Pitt, of Wellington and Washington...
...easy pickings. The Panthers had won only two games all season. When Notre Dame scored two quick touchdowns?one on a pass from Huarte to Halfback Nick Eddy that covered 91 yds. it looked like a rout. But then everything went wrong. Halfback Bill Wolski fumbled on the Pitt two, and Snow dropped a pass on the Pittsburgh goal line. Banging away at the Irish line, Pitt picked up 199 yds. rushing?16 yds. more than all six of Notre Dame's previous opponents lumped together. Finally, it was the fourth quarter, and Pitt had the ball, fourth down...
...their claws, held Ohio State to minus 14 yds. in the first half and five first downs all afternoon, while administering the Buckeyes' first goose egg in 45 games. Unbeaten Notre Dame hung on to its No. 1 ranking by standing off a second-half drive by inspired Pitt to win 17-15. Other scores: Michigan State 21 Purdue 7 Maryland 27 Navy 22 Michigan 21 Illinois 6 Syracuse 27 Army...
...This Destruction of the Tea," wrote John Adams, "is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid, and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences and so lasting, that I cannot but consider it as an Epoch in History. . ." In London William Pitt was one of the few men who shared the clarity of Adams' vision; in opposing the Boston Port Bill, one of the Coercive Acts, he prophesied that "if that mad and cruel measure should be pushed. . . England has seen her best days." Most Englishmen disagreed: "They will be Lyons whilst we are Lambs, but if we take...