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Harvard barraged CCNY with a 12-point tear in the first half that sent the Beavers reeling. City shot under 50 per cent from the floor for the second half as the rag-tag Beaver quintet had to gun from the perimeter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoopsters Cruise By City in IAB Debut, 59-49 | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

...skin: every one of them, regardless of political persuasion, is a resounding stereotype. There are no real characters, only cameos enacted by a large cast of mostly unfamiliar actors. The judges are straw men in scarlet robes, passing out death sentences like souvenir fountain pens. Their victims are a rag-tag gallery of the common man meant to embody some evergreen liberal shibboleths: the fiery left-wing journalist; the good-humored, faintly ironic petty crook; the humble shopkeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECIAL SECTION: Blind Injustice | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

Over 300 athletes competed in the Championships, which a rag-tag group of Crimson cindermen won last year. This time the Greater Boston Club was victorious with 56 points to Harvard's 17, while the Aquid Neck Island trackmen finished with 14 points. Over 20 clubs or associations were represented at the meet...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Leone Smashes Meet Record for 440 At Championships in Quincy Sunday | 6/11/1974 | See Source »

This Sunday, the real Derek Bok takes on his most natural shape. He will be at the helm when Box Jox, the rag-tag administrative conglomerate from Mass Hall, takes on Cambridge's defenders of truth and justice, the Crimson touch football team...

Author: By Halen Hardy, | Title: Box Jox Seek to Shed Losers Label | 10/6/1973 | See Source »

PRINCETON-RUTGERS--Ex-Tiger coach Jake McCandless may have been charged with padding the Princeton admissions roles with football prospects, but you wouldn't know it from the rag-tag squad the Tigers will put on the field. Tiger defense will keep the score down, though, which is some consolation. Rutgers 14, Princeton...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 9/29/1973 | See Source »

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