Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first afternoon at the Point, with his grey hat pulled low against a chill drizzle, Ike plodded up and down the sidelines of Michie Stadium, watching the Army plebe football team play Colgate freshmen. "I don't like that. I don't like that at all. Let's put the cork in the bottle," he exclaimed as a Colgate back cracked through for yardage. The President, who once coached the plebe team, grinned broadly when Army hung onto a 12-7 lead until the final whistle. Next morning he fidgeted nervously outside the hotel waiting...
Harvard's hope rests on possibilities. One, that Princeton, like Harvard against underdog Penn last week, will loose its grip long enough to let in a few too many goals. The second, and slightly more probable possibility, is that Harvard may manage to pull together for the afternoon to play an entire game of the first-class soccer they have exhibited occasionally, notably against Dartmouth...
Captain Jim Shue said the fate of the team in this season's games has rested with the halfback line. Team success has fluctuated markedly with the up and down quality of halfback play, sometimes superb, but too often very bad. Shue said he considers halfbacks "the key to success in soccer, because they're both the defensive and offensive machine of the team...
...then, the classic tempest in a teapot. It might happen again; Brandeis and Northeastern have severed athletic relations because someone was blocked too hard on a kickoff. All we can hope for is that today's encounter will be played in the cleanest fashion and under the rules of sportmanship that all gentlemen recognize. If they beat us too badly though, we can always drop them and play Marlboro instead
...Harvard Band will play at the ceremony, and the varsity swimming squad is expected to give an aquatic performance in one of the new building's three pools...