Word: cantab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Andover contest finds the ice squad of Captain C. I. Wylde '27, with one win and a loss behind them. Lack of teamwork resulted in the 5-4 defeat handed them by Milton on the Academy rink in overtime. In their Cantab contest it was the scintillating skating and stellar stickwork of individuals that enabled them to take the measure of the local schoolboys by a score...
Swann's sharp shot from left lane eluded the Cantab goalee and tickled the net for the opening tally. Clark next outwitted the schoolboy defense, swerved to the left, and shoved the puck in backward...
...Haileyburian, in the Cambridge bow. The stalwart on the Cambridge stroke-thwart was E. C. Hamilton-Russell. The bird-like little coxswain before him had a plain name, J. A. Brown, but J. A. Brown was impressive enough for the Oxonians. J. A. Brown had already steered two Cantab crews to victory in as many years and Sir James Croft, the mouse-eyed little man in the Oxford stern, peeked over at him nervously. But Sir Jeremy could have been by no means so nervous as two others present: R. T. B. Craggs, Cambridge No. 4, who had been substituted...
...were a shade the heavier. As they swung off from the start, aided by the Surrey-side current that Stroke Pitman had won in the toss, they drew three-quarters of a length ahead with a short, strong stroke, beating 36 to the minute against the 34 of the Cantab boat. Here was work for J. A. Brown. His beautiful steering helped bring Cambridge, rowing smoothly, almost abreast. The Oxford-heavies tried a spurt. At the mile the bows were dead even. Without hitting it up, the smooth-stroking Cantabs drew ahead, pricking Oxford to a fresh spurt that shot...
Stanley, the only Crimson player to remain on the ice throughout the contest, was the star of the game. He scored twice, and only brilliant work by Fitzgerald in the Cantab net kept his bullet-like shots from finding the strings more often...