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...Harvard's outside right, Ben Goldstein, again kicked in a ball that first bounced off several heads in the Cornell crease. The Crimson almost scored again late in the quarter, but a hard shot from the right hit the goalpost a half an inch too far to the left...
...American rugby glory by being invited to Bermuda, where they defeated two Royal Navy teams, 9 to 0 and 16 to 3, tied the Gloucestershire Regiment squad, and lost their final game to the Bermuda A.A. by virtue of one free-kick which the Bermudans placed between the goalpost to win 3 to 0. To match this, Harvard must look back to the 1943-44 season when a team, half of them freshmen who had never seen the sport previously, chalked up six wins to one loss and one tie against various British Empire naval and aviation teams...
...effect, Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf was playing under the shadow of his own goalpost. He knew, when he signed to coach at the University of California, what had befallen his predecessors: eleven out of 18 had been fired (by the school's potent Associated Students Executive Committee) after only one season. And the Cal team Waldorf inherited was virtually the same team that lost seven games last year...
...couple of years ago," recalled Bingham, "M.I.T. did a really fine job. A spectator could really make out the letters sitting stop the goalpost, or even on a silver flask in the Soldiers Field stands. Yes, that was an engineer's product," he recollected...
Some of the same Eli spirit that prevailed in the successful goalpost charge on Soldiers Field could not unseat John Harvard despite two assaults of 300 strong Friday afternoon and evening. University police reserves under the direction of Chief A. R. Randell rallied from all corners of the Yard to carry the field...