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...invading Brown team, today's football game at the stadium is the last and biggest contest of the season. It gives the luckless and virtually winless Bruins a chance to salvage what has been a miserable season even for Brown, which has won just six games in four years of trying. For Harvard, the 1:30 p.m. contest has traditionally been that week-end breather between princeton and Yale...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Crimson Eyes 4th Ivy Win | 11/17/1962 | See Source »

That several alumni of Brown University were upset over the Bruins' abysmal football season is perhaps not news; but the reaction to the first winless team in Brown's 83 years of football is a significant case study in what football means to a college--even an Ivy League college--and to the support of its alumni...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/18/1962 | See Source »

...though. They want to overcome the "Harvard jinx." Including freshman games, the juniors and seniors on this year's Yale team have never beaten a Harvard football club. For the 17 seniors in their last game for the Blue-the same men who formed the bulk of the winless team of 1958-today's contest will especially be a revengeful affair. In their freshman year they lost to Harvard 20 to 13, and in the following two varsity games they suffered defeats from the Crimson to the tune...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: "If Only Mr. Ravenel Hadn't Got Injured..." | 11/19/1960 | See Source »

...bound to agree with Sebo's statement about the danger of being smug in the Ivy League. As a matter of fact, Colman has uttered the same words. Last Saturday afternoon, somewhere in the mud at Palmer Stadium, the Tigers almost lost a football game to last-place, winless (in the League) Brown University...

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

...badly-battered relic of last year's Ivy League football champions will be out for blood at Soldiers Field this afternoon when winless Dartmouth tries to avenge last season's 16-8 victory...

Author: By T. M. Rothencott, | Title: Varsity Given 6-Point Edge Over Dartmouth In Key Ivy League Contest for Both Squads | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

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