Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game played at Dartmouth's Memorial Stadium yesterday afternoon, the Big Green's undefeated freshman football team dominated play and handed the Crimson freshmen their second loss in three starts. The score...
...Must Score Four...
...even a solid Harvard defense will have extreme trouble holding Dartmouth to less than three touchdowns. If Harvard is to win, it must score at least four times, and it will not score unless it confronts Dartmouth with a more diversified offense than it has used this fall...
...Harvard eleven defeated the Dartmouth team yesterday afternoon by a score of 74-0. The Dartmouth men played a curious game, their three backs bunching close behind the quarter-back and breaking through the centre of the rush line together. Their play was effective, rarely gaining for them less than three yards, and often five or eight. The reason the Harvard team could not stop these rushers better lay in the fact that all the men were very slow in getting through, and all tackled high. The offensive game of the Harvard team was the best that it has played...
Back on the ground, with little but their own dignity to hide behind, Laurence Olivier, Harry Andrews, Ralph Richardson and Trevor Howard have some good sport impersonating various historical figures who stand about the control room looking grim but determined. There is a thunderous, pseudo-symphonic score to delude the audience into believing that various moments are tense, exciting, exhilarating, tragic, or all of those things at once. It also helps keep people awake during the movie's interminable 2-hr. 10-min. running time, in which it often seems that The Battle of Britain takes longer to watch...