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...before the masses Saturday afternoon, and Bill Veeck, who had once offered Yovicsin the chance to earn a little money in his spare time, was interested in letting him know that Suffolk Downs still cared for him. Veeck, a sports entrepreneur who has contributed such diversions as the exploding scoreboard to American society, had hired two single-engine planes to fly over the Stadium bearing long streamers with messages to Yovicsin as well as to the fans...
...scored one point more than Harvard did last year would seem to indicate that the defense had almost accomplished its mission, but the 51-0 victory over Columbia distorts the reliability of that statistic as an accurate measure. Three times last season the offense put enough points on the scoreboard to insure a victory under normal circumstances, but the defense yielded 41, 51 and 24 points. At other times, the situation was reversed. Boston University only needed 13 points to win its game with the Crimson. Yale needed but seven. Inconsistency was the word, and there is no reason...
Badcock continued his mastery of the Crimson attack for the next four innings. Harvard was held hitless in that stretch, still failing to get its first run on the scoreboard...
Terriers Larry Davenport and Dick Toomey each scored in the first period last night, and Harvard gave up right away. Wayne Gowing made the score 3-0 early in the second period, and soon after Harvard's Bob Havern put the Crimson on the scoreboard at last, Davenport increased the margin...
Four minutes later. Paul Shilling put B. C. on the scoreboard with a point-blank shot in front, and throughout the second period, the Eagles kept up the pace. Time after time B. C. stormed into the Harvard zone. and time after time the Eagles were foiled by heads-up defensive play and Durno's heroic performance...