Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a fine performance in taking the high hurdles, Yale had four of the five individual firsts, and four of the individual seconds. However, Crimson victories in both relays clinched the meet. In the last event, which was the two-mile relay, the Harvard captain, Bob Houghton, running anchor, stretched a four-foot lead into a 25-foot one to win the meet for his team. Bill Palson, Dave Matlock, Ward Slingerland teamed up with him to set a new cage and meet record...
...racing end of the program, John Eusden took third place in the 100 yard free style, behind Edward Hall of Massachusetts State College and William Despres, Olneyville Boys' Club. He was also anchor man in the 200 yard free style relay, and, although starting a length behind, he pulled the Ulenmen through to victory over Dartmouth and four other teams...
...mile relay, the Crimson will be racing Yale and Princeton. Coach Mikkola will use Ward Slingerland as first man, Larry Corbett as second, Frank McKechnie as third, and Bill Ellis as anchor. This team is inexperienced, since both Slingerland, and Ellis are Sophomores, and McKechnie, although he is a Senior, did not run last year...
...resistance in the Philippines the Jap was willing to pay dearly. So last week, the sixth of the Battle of Luzon, he lashed fiercely at General Douglas MacArthur's tough little Army. MacArthur's men, holed up in the mountain-wild Bataan peninsula with an anchor below on the island fortress of Corregidor in Manila Bay, gave better than they received...
...that carefully planned reconnaissance system failed, few civilians could tell when the blow was struck. But the important thing thereafter was that the lifeline had been cut between Pearl Harbor and Manila. It was even possible that its anchor had lost a great part of its effectiveness as a supply-repair base and reserve fortress for the fleet in the Pacific. And if that were true, the loss would be greater than the loss in warships, immeasurably greater in its implications than the wreckage of planes at Hickam Field...