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...Crimson penetrated Yale's turf deeply and successfully early in the second period after a short punt by Tim O'Connell gave Harvard the ball on its own 40. The highlights in this drive were Taylor's courageous sideline catch of a Bassett pass for 16 yards, and Taylor's 23 yard gain on a double reverse to the Yale five...
After Taylor's punt and Harvard's steadily toughening line kept the Yalies safely on their own turf, the Crimson got down to business...
...Beau Purple, Jack Dreyfus' temperamental, long-striding sprinter, who insists on taking the lead at the start of a race: the $114,800 Man O' War Stakes on the turf at New York's Belmont Park-a contest that was billed as a match race between Carry Back, winner of more than $1,000,000 in three years, and Kelso, the Horse of the Year in 1960 and 1961. Almost unnoticed by betters, who let him go off at 20-1, Beau Purple fought off Kelso's challenge to win by two lengths. Carry Back finished...
Harvard's hopes for another Ivy League title were ground into the Stadium turf Saturday. There was little doubt in the minds of the chilled crowd that the Dartmouth Indians, who methodically forged a 24-6 victory, would soon be in possession of the championship...
...Youlou prevented a massacre. "Try to control yourselves," soothed Youlou, "and we will emerge greater because of this trial." He proclaimed a day of mourning for the Congo's "national martyrs." At week's end both countries rejected an offer to replay the game on the neutral turf of the Central African Republic, and formally broke off "athletic relations...