Word: winning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd of 12,000 will watch two of the bests quarterbacks in the Northeast this afternoon when the Crimson football team tries to gain its second straight victory of the season against a tough, fast, and underrated Bucknell eleven. Despite a convincing 36-22 win over the University of Massachusetts last Saturday, the favored varsity, led by Charlie Ravenel, will have a difficult job stopping the Bison pilot Paul Terhes, who last year compiled 898 yards passing...
Passing, however, is not Bucknell's only threat as last week the visitors rolled up 337 yards on the ground in their opening win against Gettysburg. Junior Terhes again excelled, leading the team with 159 yards in total offense. Paired with him will be fullback Ken Twifford, who, though only a sophomore, was the Bisons leading ground gainer with 107 yards...
...victory in White City Stadium marked the end of an internal clash as well. During the tense Harvard-Yale workouts charges like "Harvard (or Yale) isn't training" gradually turned into even more bitter remarks such as "Of course we want to win, but we want the first places to be Yale (or Harvard) first places." This bickering continued right up to the day of the meet, but by the time the final relay was run off, the honor of America had overshadowed all other concerns...
...American left London in triumph, but there were more laurels to win. The next stop was Dublin's famed Santry Stadium, scene of Herb Elliott's 3:54.5 mile in 1958, and it was there that Dyke Benjamin established himself as perhaps the greatest runner in Harvard history and a candidate for the 1960 Olympic team...
Other Harvard performers excelled at Santry's international gathering, too. Joel Landau won the 220 June 16 with a 21.8 clocking around a turn. That evening Tom Blodgett cleared 13 feet to take the pole vault, John de Kiewiet went over 6ft., 1 in. for a win in the high jump, and Pat Lilies finished first in the broad jump with a leap of 21 ft., 10 1/2 in. Lilies also was second in the pole