Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...golden days of Harvard soccer are over. Nine starters from the magnificent squad that captured two consecutive Ivy League titles are gone, and coach Bruce Munro is forced to start over this fall, almost from scratch...
...first-stringers remain from last year's championship team, which rang up a 9-1-3 record. Tim Morgan, who teamed with three-time all-Ivy Lanny Keyes last fall to give the Crimson one of the East's best defenses, returns at fullback. Morgan is big and exceptionally fast, with a booming kick and fine defensive reactions...
Most of the rest of this fall's line had to be introduced to one another when practice began, in contrast to past seasons, when returning players fairly fell into each other's arms. Precision and team work are bound to be lacking on this year's squad, at least for a while...
...much is known about Tufts. The Jumbos usually feature big, slow backs, and a scrappy, if uncoordinated line. In the past two years, the Crimson has handed Tufts two 6-0 defeats, although last fall the varsity needed as inspired fourth-quarter burst to equal the 1958 mark...
...some rotten limbs. Last spring, for example, the Committees of Correspondence, including professors David Riesman and H. Stuart Hughes, proposed "destruction of thermonuclear weapons" as an "independent American initiative." Admitting that unilateral disarmament would invite Soviet invasion and conquest, the Committee stated reassuringly that such tyranny would fall "within the limits of human experience." And bravely, the group accepted "responsibility for developing effective ways of keeping alive our basic values"--some sort of "non-military methods of resistance...