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...league baseball used to be a seasonal occupation. Come fall, a player could clean up his shotgun, untangle his fishing tackle, or just loaf on the front porch waiting for spring. If he needed spare cash, he could act like a businessman. Then eager-beaver bushers discovered a gold mine: the winter leagues. Across the Caribbean, from Cuba to Colombia, hotheaded Latins were paying good money to watch the Great American Game. A man could keep solvent, keep warm, and keep in practice all winter. Best of all, he could keep on playing baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Winter Leagues | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...play, the littlest college in Harvard's football history contributed the Crimson fan's most awakening gridiron experience. That was the first year a Harvard varsity football team lost its opening game. And what's more, it was defeated by a squad of 24 players from Geneva College in Beaver Falls...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Small College Rival: A Gridiron Menace | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

Captain-elect Don Beaver leads an unbeaten freshman soccer team into its fourth game at 3:45 p.m. today, when the Yardlings oppose Tufts on the Business School Field. Beaver, a left fullback who attended Deerfield Academy, plays the aggressive, passing type of game that Coach Poley Guyda has been advocating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/27/1954 | See Source »

...Besides Beaver, the other regular fullback is Peter Moloy. Moloy's ability to clear the ball places him above Sam Frieder. Rugged (195 pounds) Peter Payne is being used as a utility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 10/27/1954 | See Source »

...Crimson, Arnoid Sengal will again start as goalie. Peter Moloy and Donald Beaver will be the fullbacks. Halfbacks probably will be Bill Hartmann, Louis Felstiner and Tony Overschall, Shad Tubman again will be at center forward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '58 Soccer Test Due | 10/19/1954 | See Source »

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