Word: berge
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Undefeated basketball teams are as scarce as unpunetured dreams of an A exam average, and at Harvard they are non-existent. Coach Moo Berg's freshman club, however, has shot itself to the happy end of a six to one record in an every increasing erescendo of top-heavy scores. Dunced only once, and then by unbeaten Boston College 49 to 35 on a Crimson off-night, the Yardlings have copped triumphs over loudly-heralded quintets from Holy Cross, Brown, and Tufts...
...Berg has since infused speed into the Yardling attack. Jim Gabler, John Pankey, and Dave Skinner have all run escort for their taller teammates, Ed Smith, Pat McCormick, and John Lombardy, lending much needed balance to the Crimson advance...
...Berg plans one more transfusion for the forward line before officially declaring it cured. Ace guard Fred Wegner will start in an attack position in the spring term opener against Tabor Academy. Berg hopes to be able to settle down for the long siege of top notch quintets which follow one another on the second team agenda...
...work in an area where Chinese Communists now marched almost at will. Three missionaries had been shot to death by "bandits" who hauled them from a bus shouting: "You are Americans, and Americans must die!" They were Martha Anderson of Minneapolis, Esther Nordlund of Chicago, and Dr. Alexis Berg of Finland, all attached to an Evangelical Covenant Mission in Hupeh. Others, who reached Hankow, told their stories quietly, without rancor...
Freshman Coach Warren Berg was also on hand to greet the group, which included nine holdovers from last year's Varsity plus a large turnout from the 1947 jayvee and freshman outfits. He plans to hold another meeting later on for Yardling candidates...