Word: squads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fate of the 1959 edition of the Crimson basketball team depends on several variable and extremely elusive factors; even the starting lineup is an amalgamation of uncertainities. The squad could be very, very good. Then again, it could be very, very bad indeed...
Coach Floyd Wilson, although predicting that "we'll improve over last year," admits that this season's unit is "farther behind in progress as a team than any other squad I've ever had." Only one member of the starting five returns at the same position he played last winter, although four are tested competitors. Of the tenman varsity squad, three are seniors, two juniors, and the rest sophomores, giving Wilson one of the youngest teams in the East...
...Arena. It is an exciting, if exacting spectator sport to see a spirited logician in broken-field running (using the split-hair formation) tear through a platoon of Platonists or a squad of schoolmen. Russell puts living and dead philosophers in the same intellectual arena. Turning to 6th century B.C. Greece, for example, he respects Anaximander's intuition that man is biologically related to fish, but laughs at his injunction that therefore man should not eat fish. "Whether our brethren of the deep cherish equally delicate sentiments towards us is not recorded," Russell snuffles in a donnish gibe...
Paced by a fast backfield and a strong defensive line, the junior varsity football squad turned in a 4-1-1 record this fall, a better showing than any other J.V. team in several years. Sparked by a sophomore backfield, provided by last year's outstanding freshman team, the J.V.'s provided several good prospects for the varsity...
...attaining its record of six games won to three lost, the Crimson scored 177 points compared with the opposition total of 101 points. Although the Harvard squad made more first downs and rushing yardage than the teams it played, it tallied less passing yardage (and number of completed passes) than its opponents. The Crimson had nine of its passes intercepted and lost 10 fumbles this season, compared with an opposition total of 10 lost passes and 18 fumbles lost...