Word: season
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unemployment relief, Harvard, following its President's firm policy, refused to go along. Later, however, voluntary collections were allowed at some home games. After a tight 7-6 victory over Dartmouth, the unbeaten Crimson eleven, led by All-American Barry Wood, confidently faced their New Haven rivals in the season's traditional final game--and lost, by a heartbreaking 3-0 score at the hands of Albie Booth...
Football came in like a lion, with 200 Freshmen going out in a feverishly excited season. But the last few games saw humiliating, lop-sided upsets for a mediocre season, enlivened by a now-familiar discussion of the merits of collegiate football in general. Barry Wood's What Price Football? came out to answer, among other arguments, the suggestion of Henry Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation that football be abandoned in favor of horseracing...
...which was not designed as a truly intercontinental plane. Delivery of the new model will begin in July-and for the airlines it cannot come too soon. Jet travel has caught on so well that the jets are operating at 95% of capacity even before the peak tourist season...
Died. Edward A. Walsh, 78, one of baseball's great pitchers, whose dazzling spitball won 40 games in 1908; of cancer; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Walsh won an average of 24 games a season during his peak years (1906-12) with the Chicago White Sox, pitched a record total of 464 innings in one season, but was so overworked that he faded fast in his early 303. He never made more than $6,500 a year, and although elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1946, had to eke out a living on a pittance...
...Perry Como Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Last of the season for the human...