Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More confident this week with a 16 to 4 victory over the Royal Australian Air Force behind them, the Crimson Rugby team will encounter a strong Royal New Zealand Navy team tomorrow at 2:45 o'clock on Soldiers Field. Captain Steve Ausnit expressed the opinion that "Harvard should win if the full team is able to play," and mentioned that Dunney Smith may miss the game...
Following Saturday's game the rugby schedule calls for three more tilts, with the Royal Australian Navy, the British Fleet Air Arm from Squantum, and Princeton...
With three weeks of intensive practice and coaching by Coach Syd Cabot behind them, the Crimson rugby team proved its merit on the far field at Soldiers Field Saturday by thrashing an experienced Royal Australian Air Force squad by the score of 16 to 4. All the scoring in the game, third of the season and the first to be won, occurred in a reckless second half when Crimsonmen surged over the Aussie goal on four occasions, and brought their total score to 16 points with two conversion kicks...
There was little opposition as U.S. and Australian troops, veterans of Salamaua and Buna-Gona, hit the beaches. Jap soldiers at Hollandia, evidently numbering considerably fewer than the 10,000 expected there, dashed into the jungle, leaving uneaten breakfasts. Beachheads were secured as easily at the other two points...
...London big, grey, international-minded Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Australian High Commissioner, made a reminiscent proposal: World War II debts should be canceled...