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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer, at an age when most hockey players put away their skates for good, 36-year-old Eddie Shore bought the minor-league Springfield (Mass.) Indians with $40,000 of his savings, planned to play with the minor-leaguers himself. Because Boston was loath to lose him, Eddie Shore...
Each team had won eight games, lost one and held one another to a 0-to-0 tie in their only previous meeting this season. The Giants, best defensive team in the league, had been beaten only once in its last 23 games. Yet they were the underdogs, for the...
Among cheerleaders who were born too soon to get their crossed megaphones: Band Leader Kay Kyser, whose North Carolina cheerios of 1927 set an alltime high note in Southern cheerleading.
No one knows the name of the first college cheerleader. In the early days of U. S. football (1890s), cheering was confined to a few spontaneous yells of triumph or dismay, or an occasional manly three-times-three. At Harvard, substitutes or injured players first led this protozoic cheering-either...
The cheerleaders' All-America seven (because that is the size of the average college squad) is chosen each year by Gamma Sigma, national college cheerleaders' fraternity, with the aid of sportswriters and sportcasters. Gamma Sigma has no college chapters, no fraternity house, no key. Its 900-odd members...