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Only an archaic scoring quibble gave the varsity its victory over Princeton in a three-way meet with the Tigers and Yale. By triangular scoring, the Crimson finished third, with 48 points, against Princeton's 47 and Yale's 26. Traditionally, though, the contest is scored as three dual meets, although none of the conditions of a two-team clash prevails. In its head-to-head encounter with the Tigers, the Crimson could claim...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Cross Country Squad Survives Bleak Year With Hope for 1960 | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

...barrage leveled by Brown is the worst defeat McCurdy can remember. The Bruins, led by Bob Lowe, ran wild against the Crimson, who just managed to tie Cornell for last place. Later, in the fall's climactic encounter, Yale outscored the varsity, 26 to 48 by three-way scoring...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Cross Country Squad Survives Bleak Year With Hope for 1960 | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

...competition annually forge a flock of tough, tenacious teams that can meet any squad in the land on even terms. Last week thrice-beaten Michigan State overturned Northwestern, 15-10, and thrice-beaten Illinois did the same to Wisconsin, 9-6, to throw the Big Ten race into a three-way tie, prove again that the league plays the best-balanced, and on average, the best college football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...Crimson varsity soundly whipped Penn after the Quakers had just finished bolstering the League's prestige by tying Navy the week before. Now the Red and Black finds itself in a three-way tie for first place as it prepares to meet one of the co-leaders, Jordan Olivar's Yale team...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/4/1959 | See Source »

Jones and the Giants know that this is the week that may decide the three-way pennant fight: they play two games with Milwaukee, three with Los Angeles. Sad Sam is ready. "The arm's been ten years hurting," he says. "Now I've got control of this crooked elbow, I don't mind when it hurts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tortured Arm | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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