Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 18--It was brains over brawn on Yale Field today, as the Harvard soccer team downed Yale, 2 to 0, by playing short, accurate ball all the way. Scoring once in the second period and again at the beginning of the fourth, Coach Bruce Monro's team made a heavy, "boot-and-run" Eli outfit play Harvard's game all the way except for a few shaky minutes at the beginning...
Three nights later in Chicago, Pancho's big serve worked better and he dusted off Kramer, 9-7, 1-6, 6-4, but in Milwaukee he lost again, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Pancho had youth and brawn in his favor, but right now Big Jake Kramer still looked like the champ...
...Baldwin, Saturday's high scorer, is another good bet at an attack position, and Ned Yost will probably accompany him at the crease. Yost represents an additional threat to the prop schoolers, for his brawn enables him to use a defenseman's stick in place of the regular attack implement...
...will do Winthrop no harm, especially center Ted Nelson, who is roughly six feet seven inches tall. With this in mind, the Puritans are operating on the pivot system which worked well for them last year (Winthrop lost the title to Dunster in the last game of the season). Brawn, if such be needed on the court, is certainly present in the form of football players Jerry Kanter, Art Hyde and skip Garvey; other more slender men include frank Gump, Jim Powell, Joe Thalfer, and Bob Blinken...
Colorful John DiGangi is no longer around, but two Crusader linemen weigh over 230 and the others tip the scales at close to that mark. The backfield combines more brawn with shiftiness and speed...