Word: alle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Points are scored every time a player on one team laps a member of the opposing team. A "jam" is an effort to score a point and occurs when one of the faster men on a team is shaken loose, usually on a crack-the-whip maneuver, and tries to...
By definition, then, the sport is bound to get rather fierce at times. Elbows are thrown with reasonably gay abandon and spills are frequent. But there wasn't a genuine body check all evening the night I went (this is surprising in a game like this) and the girls were...
But all in all, the Roller Derby is good entertainment. It can be fairly exciting and if you pick a night when the competitors happen to be in a particularly surly mood, I suppose it could be downright dangerous. The Roller Derby appears to have more staying power than another...
But Council member David C. Poskanzer '50 said he could not understand the necessity for a set of rules 24 pages long. In "questioning the whole philosophy of these rules," Poskanzer said, "No rules can possibly cover every particular situation, so I think five pages should hold all the requirements...
The new rules differ from those now in effect in allowing organizations to distribute printed matter and posters through dorms without prior Deans' approval. They also provide for a periodic investigation by the Council of all groups to see that they still abide by the rules.