Word: shots
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This year, the 1958 positions are reversed. The varsity, with its 1-1 League record, still has a shot at the Ivy title, while the Big Green has yet to win. Gundy will severely try the Crimson pass defense, and Crouthamel's running will keep the varsity honest. The 75-year old rivalry stands at 35 wins for Harvard, 24 for Dartmouth, and three ties. It will take the Crimson's best showing of the season to make it 36 today...
Barnes was sent to North Africa in the first American fighter group to fly support for General Montgomery. He flew 66 missions before being shot down and captured over Tunis. He tried to escape and nearly succeeded--disguised as an Arab, with blackened face and dirty blanket, he managed to get by one German patrol before taking refuge in "a hole at El Hama." There, he says, "I made a poor choice of Arab friends, and one of them turned me over to the Italians. They tried me as a spy before the high command while the British were shelling...
...later could repay. "But I got in so deep I couldn't stop. I lost count of what I was spending." From Montreal he flew back to New York's Statler Hilton, used the card to cash checks, then went on to Las Vegas. There he shot dice at the same table with Frank Sinatra, who said: "Let the kid roll." He rolled and won $400, flew back to Manhattan and checked into the Henry Hudson Hotel in a $60-a-day room. He engaged it for a month to get the $30-a-day economy rate...
...Lanny Keyes played a nearly perfect game at left fullback, and halfback Charlie Steele bottled up the Columbia attack on the right. At the one point when a sensational stop was needed, goalie Tom Bagnoli came through. In the fourth quarter, Lion center forward Haakan Rutchinsky had a clear shot from close in, but Bagnoli rose to the occasion with a spectacular diving save...
Late in the first overtime, varsity inside John Mudd launched a hard shot that looked like the Crimson's winning goal. At the last possible instant, however, little Tony Gebauer, a 5 ft., 6 in. halfback, blocked the ball with his head, stunning himself but ending the varsity's last serious threat...