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...Crimson fans and objective observers among the 30,000 in Palmer Stadium this afternoon would disagree with Princeton partisans who called the win a fluke. No one can say positively that the absence of Royce Flippin and Dick Frye plus the limited participation of Dick Martin and Dick Emery hurt the home team more than the visitors were handicapped by losing Matt Botsford and Dexter Lewis for the whole game and Jim Joslin for the last three quarters...
...visiting team won on Soldiers Field. The undergraduate attitude to that loss was adequately summed up in a Boston Globe editorial: "... Harvard has no excuses. The eleven was clearly outplayed in the second half and beaten fairly. To be sure, Amherst's score was in the nature of a fluke, but that fluke was enough...
...victory. Shad Tubman continued his high scoring, tallying both Crimson goals, the first at 3:15 of he first period, the last after nine minutes of the final period, the last after nine minutes of the final period. His second goal was somewhat of a fluke, being deflected off a Green fullback into the goal. For three periods Dartmouth threatened, but only scored once...
...meantime, this Saturday the team must prove its shutout of Dartmouth Jan. 9 in the Pentagonal League opener was no fluke. The Indians and the Crimson meet in the rubber match of a three-game series at the Winter Carnival...
...just six-tenths off Gunder Hagg's record of 1945. Plainly discouraged, Landy said, "I've done as well as I can. I'm running for fun from now on. If I do the four-minute mile, it will be a fluke...