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...Before his retirement in 1958, Lewis returned to making westerns. His last film, "Terror in a Texas Town," is a truly odd affair that, like "Gun Crazy" unfolds with dream-logic. The unforgettable opening, for instance, finds Sterling Hayden striding valiantly toward a classically styled showdown - toting a harpoon on his shoulder. An unseen gunfighter mocks him for his choice of weapon, and the movie proceeds, in one long flashback, to explain how Hayden got into this strange predicament. "Terror" is not Lewis's finest western, but it does stand as a fitting conclusion to his body of work...
With the victory, Harvard was all but mathematically eliminated from the Ivy title race. Barring any major upsets, the winner of next week's Brown-Dartmouth showdown will end up sharing the title with Princeton. Any scenario with the Crimson still maintaining the share of the title involves Princeton losing to Penn and the Brown-Dartmouth winner losing to a lower-tier Ivy team...
...Bowl Championship Series (BCS) showdown between Lou Holtz's new team and his old team is not as impossible as it may have once seemed...
Friday night's showdown at Princeton was the epitome of high stakes Ivy League soccer. The high level of intensity was obvious as the two teams battled with their respective championship hopes on the line...
Having won four games in a row and two wins in as many weeks against Top 20 teams, Harvard is at a season-high level of confidence going into Saturday afternoon's showdown at six-time defending Ivy champion Princeton...