Word: seasonal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this imagination adds up to a season that was both the Crimson's most satisfying in years and a curiously acute disappointment. To be the only team in the League to beat champion Penn, to upset both Princeton and Yale for the Big Three title, and then also to lose ingloriously to mediocre teams like Cornell and Brown--the final impression is a mixture of pleasure at a good season and disappointment at a couple of near-misses...
...record, the 1959 varsity football team won six games and lost three (4-3 in the Ivy League), scored 177 points to its opponents' 101, rolled up 147 first downs to its opponents' 121. This was Harvard's first winning season since 1954 and also the Crimson's first Big Three title since that year; 1959 also marked the first time Harvard has finished in the first division since the Ivy League began round-robin play three years...
Williams and McIntyre are the most likely candidates for Boulris' left halfback job, with Repsher probably taking over at right halfback. Williams is big and fast, and can pass; he sat out most of the season with injuries, but looked good in the Yale game. Mcintyre, the team's best punter, was running almost as well as Boulris for a while against Penn; he too was bothered by injuries this year. Shipman, Damis and Armstrong will be speedy and capable replacements...
...fullback, only Halaby--a regular for three years--is leaving. Junior Glenn Haughie, who started when Halaby was hurt early this year, is the probable successor, but sophomore Chuck Reed and junior Jim Nelson (defensive back who gained 11 yards in his only carry this season against Yale) are in the running...
While members of the press corps surrounded the Faculty Club waiting for Mather to make a statement, he reportedly slipped out the ladies' entrance of the Club. His statement was issued between the second and third acts of "Porgy and Bess," smash hit of the 1935 season--although Mather does not recall the incident now. This statement again showed a spirit of rebellion. "When the splendid group of patriotic teachers are singled out for treatment as suspicious characters, I rebel...