Word: cage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practice starts at 6.30 o'clock on Thursday, in Briggs Cage, and takes place twice a week until Spring recess. Moving outdoors in the spring term, the team will have a seven-game schedule, with Cornell, Princeton, and Yale among the opponents...
Tickets are bought, not through a cage-barred wicket, but over a hip-high counter of light natural birch. Washrooms have bright red, non-defaceable metal partitions. The waiting room has walls and ceiling of Flexboard (no plaster to chip and crack), is brightly lighted at night by round, porthole-like fixtures built almost flush with the ceiling. Slightly more expensive to build than old-style stations, Edgewood's (at $18,000) is expected to save money through virtual absence of maintenance costs...
...meet. In the last event, which was the two-mile relay, the Harvard captain, Bob Houghton, running anchor, stretched a four-foot lead into a 25-foot one to win the meet for his team. Bill Palson, Dave Matlock, Ward Slingerland teamed up with him to set a new cage and meet record...
...Pfister shoved the iron ball 45 ft., 103/4 in. to win the event from the Eli captain, Ernie Parshall. Johnny Shattuck took a third in this event. In the dash, Bill Trainor came in third behind Bud Talbott and Bill Clark of Yale, who set a new meet and cage record, when he stopped the watch at 6.3 seconds...
...point to the Crimson total with his third. The time was 7.9 seconds. In the lows, however, the visitors did not fare so well, for MacKinnon could only manage to get a third behind Ralph Sargent and Dick Detwiler. Here again, a new meet record was set, and the cage record tied with a time of 7.2 seconds...