Word: winning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year is different, say some team members. The varsity has last season's great freshman team, which ended Yale's 66-meet winning streak. Yale has lost aces Tim Jecko and Roger Anderson, and several underclassmen. The Crimson wants to win badly, and all its dreams center on Payne Whitney Pool next March...
Next the team won two away games, but both times needed to come from behind to do it. The Yardlings scored three late touchdowns in mud and water at Dartmouth to win, 18 to 6, and also needed three eleventh-hour scores (thanks mainly to halfback Hobie Armstrong) to overcome a 6-0 deficit and finally triumph, 20 to 6, over Brown...
...junior varsity began its season propitiously, with two decisive victories. Halaby tallied twice to lead the team to a 34-6 win over Newport Naval Station on Oct. 2. Then the jayvees scored four quick touchdowns in the first half to tromp Tufts...
...Crimson eleven allowed Princeton only a field goal, as it came up with its fourth consecutive win, 14 to 3, as Williams romped 45 yards for the second TD. Then things began to get rougher, as Penn tied the Crimson 12 to 12 in the rain. And three weeks later Yale marred the J.V.'s undefeated season by delivering a 12-0 defeat...
...Holworthy Hall, where they were eventually seized, the youths said they were from orphanages in Jacksonville, Fla., and Little Rock, Ark., and were trying to win a $500 prize offered by a subscription company to anyone able to sell a certain number of magazines. According to a freshman in the dorms, the boys claimed their contest deadline was 4:30 that afternoon...