Word: canton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the varsity and the Larries from Canton, N.Y., have one NCAA game left to play. It the Committee decides to wait until the entire eastern schedule has been completed, the final selections will be postponed until Sunday, when the three committee coaches will meet at the Kenmore in Boston...
...victory gave the Crimson a 15-1-1 record in NCAA competition and may have finally clinched its first national title bid. Its two contenders for the NCAA eastern invitations, Clarkson (15-3) and St. Lawrence 915-1), meet tonight in canton...
Providence College which upset Clarkson, 4 to 3, last Saturday, played St. Lawrence last night, and the Larries and Clarkson meet tomorrow night in Canton, New York...
Died. Sol Butler, 59, onetime (1920) U.S. running broad-jump champion, one of the first Negroes to play professional football (on the Canton Bulldogs in the early '20s, with Jim Thorpe); of gunshot wounds; in Chicago. Butler, a bartender, was shot down by a customer he had thrown out for annoying a waitress...
...Moscow in 1925, Ho embarked upon a slithering, 15-year journey through the Communist underground of the world. He would appear shaven-headed in Thailand, disguised as a Buddhist monk; he would show up in the Latin Quarter of Paris, explaining to waiters how to prepare his food. In Canton, Ho worked for Borodin, the Russian intriguer who helped undermine China. In Singapore, Ho organized Southeast Asia's Comintern. And when IndoChina's Nationalist Party rebelled against the French in 1930, Ho Chi Minh played it coldly; although he was constantly posing as a Nationalist...