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Word: winning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loyal alumni choked with rage as they saw the Harvard varsity football team decisively beaten by a mediocre Yale eleven. It was merely the last chapter in the history of Harvard's worst season, a season in which the Crimson compiled a record of eight losses and one win. The alumni, drawing upon their years of grandstand quarterbacking and television football, decided something was definitely wrong and further decided it was the coach...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...about "bringing the team up for the games." In these days of two platoon football, they just don't go out and "win one for the Gipper" any more. It is far more important to hire a sound football coach than one who can sound like Pat O'Brien in the locker room between the halves. There is, of course, something to the theory that the team which is up for the game plays better than it ordinarily does. But we feel that this point is over-emphasized, and that 49 times out of 50 the fundamentally sound team will...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

Number two man Hugh Nawn gave the varsity A squash team its only win as it lost, 4 to 1, to a Union Boat Club squad yesterday in the Union Boat Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boat Club Downs Squash Team, 4-1 | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

...congratulating the captain-elect, expressed the opinion that he was constantly improving and might join sophomore Dave Gregory in pacing the squad next fall. Gregory has been the top performer for Mikkola's squad throughout the fall, in a disastrous season which saw only one Crimson victory, a close win over Holy Cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pankey Selected Harriers' Captain | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

...thousand pounds of turkey win forsake their barnyard homes tomorrow for a place on the various University dining hall tables. Dining Halls Manager William A. Heaman announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Gives Holiday Baskets; Dining Halls Ready Turkeys | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

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