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After Blanchard's touchdown (midway in the third quarter), Oliver slowly emptied his bench. Junior quarterback Bill Leockonby, who had a lot of fun completing five of 11 passes for 47 yards, scored Yale's last touchdown on a three yard run. Ed Kaake toed the extra point...
...Maclntyre was not in a particularly jovial mood when he took over for Armstrong midway in the first quarter. On his first running play, he gained 15 yards, and soon after, with second and 22 on the Harvard 24, he tossed a 23-yard pass to Larry Repsher...
...Midway in the first quarter, Williams' Bob Adams fielded a shot and threw the ball out between his two fullbacks. Crimson halfback Bill King raced between them, stole the ball, and passed to inside Toddy Wendell. Wendell had a clear path to the goal, and beat Adams with his shot...
Morison probably writes his best about the giant hull-to-hull slugging matches in which American sailors showed their best. "Lord of himself," he said of Midway's victor, "Raymond A. Spruance emerged from this battle as one of the great fighting and thinking admirals in American naval history." Of the fight for the South Pacific, he says: "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion." Sailor-Scholar Morison, who rode eleven ships and won seven battle stars and the Legion of Merit with combat clasp while getting...
...Midway through the women's 200-meter breaststroke, Britain's leggy Anita Longsbrough, 19, turned on a rhythmic sweeping stroke that slowly overcame the 5-meter lead of West Germany's husky Wiltrud Urselmann, 18, brought her gliding home a winner in 2:49.5 to set both an Olympic record (by 2.5 sec.) and a world record...