Word: buxton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SATURDAY AFTERNOON (following football game) Closed Cocktail Parties: All fraternities, Tower Club, Hegeman D, Hegeman E. Open Cocktail Parties: Hegeman B, Olney, Sears, Wayland, Marcy, Caswell (in Buxton Lounge...
...course, Caldwell suffered losses through graduation. Among the notables gone were Captain George Sella, a very good wingback, fullback John Powers, and three offensive line veterans, Don Cohn, Norm Moore, and Julian Buxton. Yet despite the "losses," the Tigers have knocked off Williams, Rutogers, Navy, Brown, Cornell, and Colgate on consecutive week-ends. The schedule is not particularly impressive, but Princetin's easy 27 to 0 victory over last year's Ivy League champion Cornell went far towards proving the Tigers real mettle...
...pubs around Macclesfield, in England's Cheshire, the regulars have been gassing for years about old John Alcock. Oldsters could still recall the day in 1902 when John, then 62, walked backwards the whole twelve miles from Macclesfield to Buxton, and turned the trick in 3 hr. 14½ min. Last week a relative newcomer named Russell Wright, 46, set out to better old John's time over the same course...
...downhill parts of the Buxton road gave Wright the most trouble. He had to lean sharply toward Macclesfield to keep from falling flat. But with a couple of forward-walking friends for company (see cut), Wright backtracked to a modern local record,* 3 hr. 14 min., half a minute better than John Alcock's time...