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...more sensational contests in this long series was the 50th anniversary meeting in 1932. A fired-up Big Green squad played the Crimson to a standstill for most of the game. Harvard's winning break came on the second-half kickoff, when Carl Pescosolido produced a 93-yard runback to provide the decisive tally in a 10-7 victory. As the Crimson put it, "Outrushed, outpassed, and outplayed by the Indians, the Harvard Varsity football team left the Stadium with a whole scalp only by providential intervention...
Quarterback Bill Gundy of the Indians circled left end for six points early in the second quarter, and he threw to Burke in the end zone for two more. The game seemed to be going just about as predicted. But Crimson halfback Chet Boulris returned the second-half kickoff to his own 43, and from there quarterback Charlie Ravenel led a 57-yard touch-down march. Ravenel himself went over from the one-yard line on a fourth down play. The spectators in the stands anxiously awaited the Dartmouth counter-attack...
Fighting back from a 1-0 deficit at intermission, the varsity soccer team put on a determined second-half drive and defeated a stubborn Boston University eleven, 4 to 1, yesterday in a home contest...
...first two teams showed a steady running attack for three periods, building up a 36-0 lead. Then the substitutes got some badly needed experience against a team that last week staged a dramatic, second-half rally...
Even stocks of electronics makers who sell chiefly to consumers sold off easily. Zenith Radio Corp. established a first-half record with earnings of $1.66 per share v. $1.01 last year, but lost 14⅛ points during the week. Philco Corp. came back from a $1,400,000 loss in the first half last year to earn 54? per share for the first six months of 1959, was off 2⅞ for the week. Motorola, which set a second-half record with $3.04 per share v. 76? last year, dipped seven points...