Word: cantab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cantab cold shoulder, long-established treatment for athletes invading Crimson territory, is on the way out at last...
After Blue forward Jack Calkins had scored the normal aggressiveness of the Cantab rugby-footballers waned temporarily. A fleeting spark of the form they displayed against a smooth Princeton bunch returned five minutes later as outer Bill Dawson bounced a high pass to John Spivak, who headed it into the opposition ball basket...
...optimistic prognostication, the Westminster outfit is still something of an unknown quantity in these parts. In 73 years of Cantab football. Western Maryland and Harvard have never met across a ten table or a football. The cynic of Mr. Peter Arno's cartoon would like to know, along with some other people, why this hoary tradition merits interruption. Actually there are more inter-connections between the two squads than in any ancient ivied rivalry...
With no less than 20 penalties being meted out, Yale's Freshman hockey team defeated Harvard 5 to 2 in a hard-fought battle. The Cantab's Larry Ward knotted the count at two all on an unassisted dash at 0:48 of the third period before the winners suddenly caught fire...
Offensively, the Cantab line's best single play was on Vinnie Moravec's veer buck for the second touchdown. After advancing to the Purple 12-yard marker on two successive passes from Chip Gannon to Captain Cleo O'Donnell, the Cantabs pulled off the neatly-blocked and neatly-faked off-center line smash that is one of Harlow's favorites. Moravec lunged toward the center of the line, then veered over the left guard hole as Coulson took out the backer-up who had been plugging...