Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second half, Harvard's defense choked off the running of Bill McGill, who picked up 108 yards on the ground in place of the injured Bruce Molloy, and the short passing of quarterback Pete Wisniewski. But despite threat after threat on the Quaker goal line, the Crimson could manage only a game-saving field goal...
However, the game probably won't be remembered for Harvard's poor play or for Penn's competence, but for a weird call on a weird play that led to a Quaker field goal and ultimately...
...Quaker backfield is not particularly distinguished. Fullback Whit Smith is a hard-running 220-pounder with a 3.0 yard rushing average. Halfback Buzz Hannum, a third-stringer last year, has a 2.9 yard average...
...ancestral motivation of war-resisting is religious pacifism. In 1899, Benjamin Franklin Trueblood, Quaker educator and prime mover of the American Peace Society, thought he saw within his own life's span an end to war. He exulted: "Its days are nearly numbered"-and died, 17 years later, of what his obituarists called heartbreak, as his fellow Americans headed into World War I and death in places like Belleau Wood. Trueblood was in the tradition of a thin but spiritually pure stream of philosophical pacifism that has run through Western society since the rise of Christianity, even though...
...Crimson victory was the meet impressive, but who's to say the Tigers vote running all out? Allen, in third place, was the top Harvard finisher in the Quaker-Lion meet, while Andreini, in fourth place behind Penn's Radcliffe Thompson, was the low scorer for the Tigers...