Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indeed the varsity had no trouble at all with the Lions, tallying two goals and four touchdowns and shutting out Columbia. The next week the Crimson whipped Dartmouth by four goals and 19 touchdowns to nothing...
...Crimson mentor Art Valpey's debut neared in 1948, the veteran Columbia squad, coached by Lou Little and paced by quarterback Gene Rossides and halfback Lou Kusserow, was a solid favorite. The Lions rolled up 26 first downs, a record for the school, and 480 yards gained, but this was not enough. Harvard scored four of the first six times it had the ball, on a 60-yard run, a 16-yard pass after a running play had covered 54 yards, an 18-yard rush after a backfield fumble, and a 36-yard touchdown throw. The score at the half...
...straight Columbia triumphs followed in the next six years, as Harvard football plunged to an all-time low. But the long years of suffering were nearly at an end. In 1955, the Crimson soundly whipped the Lions, 21 to 7, in the rain and mud at Baker Field. Benham engineered the varsity's defeat in 1956, but with his graduation passed an era in Columbia football...
...varsity was on the long end of a 19-6 count. And last fall the Crimson won by the biggest margin it had ever run up in the series since point scoring came into effect. Columbia came to the aid of the varsity's faltering offense by fumbling eight times, with four of the bobbles being recovered by Harvard. Quarterback Charlie Ravenel bounced a pass off end Hank Keohane's chest and into the hands of center Pete Eliades on the Lion one-foot line to set up the first score. Ravenel tallied first, followed by Tom Lawson, Albie Cullen...
Today will mark the 18th meeting between the two teams. It has been a long time since either carried much weight in the Ivy League race, but the rejuvenated Crimson and the spirited Columbia squad with its revamped offense are rising to prominence again. A note of warning to the Lions: after its heart-breaking defeat by Benham and Co. in 1956, Harvard bounced back to outscore powerful Dartmouth 28 to 21. The varsity will be out for blood again this afternoon. Harvard Squad PROBABLE STARTING LINE-UP NO. NAME POSITION 80 CAPPIELLO, DAVID L. E 84 KEOHANE, HAROLD...