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Last night proved that the exceptional all-round improvement shown during the last week of practice in team play was not only a dream raiser. Plays clicked and extinguished any semblance of a Tech defense, with pivot-man Pat McCormick, his alternator John, Lombard, and Smith virtually roping off the backboard areas and tipping the points in at will over the heads of the M.I.T. quintet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 51 Squads Win in Curtain Raisers | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

...times even brilliant as in the 17-7 win over Columbia and in the first half of the Dartmouth game. Discounting the mud-splattered Brown fiasco, however, it has been found wanting in two instances against Wisconsin and Princeton. The answer both times seemed to be the all-round edge of the rival front ranks...

Author: By Oliver Brooks, SPORTS EDITOR, YALE DAILY NEWS | Title: Rueful Bulldog Coaches Call Crimson Tilt Toss-Up | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

Wobbling Rabbit. The man who had made it work is a well-muscled, pigeontoed, 28-year-old rookie from Pasadena, Calif., who, along with Glenn Davis and Babe Didrikson Zaharias, is one of the great all-round athletes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie of the Year | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...been profitable: the Enterprise was down to 268 subscribers when Gould bought it in 1945. Boston-born and Maine-reared, he knew the town from childhood summers on his grandfather's farm on nearby Lisbon Ridge. When he grew up he bought the farm, worked as an all-round newsman on the Brunswick Record. When its publisher died, a banker friend suggested that he take over the Lisbon weekly. Gould proposed a partnership to Printer J. W. ("Jess") Goud (rhymes with food), who seemed, after the Maine fashion, completely uninterested. Next morning Goud showed up with his eyeshade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Free-&-Easy Enterprise | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Jake has always understood that fact of sporting life; and he has always understood the all-round value of becoming a champion. Nothing has ever been allowed to interfere with his determination to make good at tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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