Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other backfield changes since the Worcester game have Don Richards sharing the starting berth at right half with Gershon Ross, and Paul Perkins back at fullback in place of Ralph Goodale, who started against the Academy team...
Four months ago Sir Frederick left Britain and a berth as head of the vital R.A.F. Coastal Command on two days' notice. Twelve hours later, having flown the Atlantic, he went to work in Montreal. Less spectacular than the Coastal Command, his new job was now more vital to Britain's defense. He took over for the R.A.F. the critical task of seeing that U.S. bombers got to Britain, quickly and safely...
...Frederick Bowhill started his career by shipping before the mast. He sailed round the Horn in windjammers, worked his way up to a captain's berth. Today he is a Master Mariner, certified to command any ship of any size anywhere in sail or steam. But when in World War I the Royal Navy drafted him at 32, it did not put him on the bridge of a warship. Instead, he found himself on the "front porch" of an openwork biplane, learning to fly, then teaching himself the dangerous art of taking off from the deck of a merchantman...
...Welsh will be definitely out of today's game due to a dislocated shoulder, but actually he probably would have played little of the game anyway. A Sophomore, wingback Joe Kane, has been coming go fast in the early season workouts that he probably would have held the starting berth even if Welsh was in perfect physical shape...
Summers, who will captain the hockey team thin winter, was one of the candidates for the wingback berth until a combination of mishaps put him out of action some time ages. With his returns to duty the wingback squad begins to fill out, in numbers, if not in experience. Ray Guild and IInl Tine are still on the injured list, and neither Summers nor Gerdy Lyle have had much contact work this fall. Steve Gifford and Cico O'Donnell, Sophomore candidates for the position, have seen considerable action, but both are still comparatively inexperienced...