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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trailing by four points with but 24 seconds remaining, Cornell's football team suddenly connected for a 76 yard pass play that defeated the Crimson, 20 to 16. It was as exciting and unlikely a finish as local fans have seen in years...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Cornell Overtakes Eleven, 20-16, As Last-Minute Pass Succeeds | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

...visitors wasted no time in retaliating, as they grabbed the kickoff and marched 80 yards in nine plays for their first score. The key play in this series was an overthrown McKelvey pass on which interference was called against the Crimson. From the press box it seemed as though the safety had merely stumbled over the fallen reciver, and the fans, too, were vocal in their disapproval of the call. But the ruling stuck, and Cornell gained 25 yards on the play...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Cornell Overtakes Eleven, 20-16, As Last-Minute Pass Succeeds | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

Midway in the final period, Cornell capitalized on a Crimson fumble to score again. Ravenel let a handoff squirt out of his hands on the 33, and Bidwell, grabbing the ball in mid-air, moved to the 26. On the very next play, Marcello Tino's pass to Taylor was complete for the touchdown...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Cornell Overtakes Eleven, 20-16, As Last-Minute Pass Succeeds | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Playwright-Producer Rod Serling's exercise in fantasy. This one brings back that old pitchman Ed Wynn to play an old pitchman trying to outwit "Mr. Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Look Back in Anger. The angry young hero (Richard Burton) boils over with indiscriminate rage at religion, the Sunday Times, his mother-in-law. Somehow the John Osborne play seemed saner on the stage than it does on the screen-but with Claire Bloom and Gary Raymond to help, the movie has its moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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