Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bayonet until, after 20 minutes of agony, he toppled and gashed himself (but he never named his tormentors). By 1901, when he graduated 15th in his class, George Catlett Marshall, son of a well-off coke processor, collateral descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall, had become a legend: First Captain of the Corps of Cadets, all-Southern football tackle, tireless hiker, faultless in conduct and dress-soldier...
Mild as it was, the new plan pleased no one. Said Group Captain Leslie Briggs, hard-shell leader of the far-right, pure-white United Party: "This is dishonest and dangerous-we would have no right to stop a convicted Mau Mau gangster farming next door to us." With equal vehemence, African Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya denounced the proposals as falling far short of the sweeping redistribution of White Highlands acreage demanded by Africans. Even members of the moderate New Kenya Party, led by Michael Blundell, Kenya's most progressive white politician, raised the outcry that the plan...
...kept telling them I was building." shrugs Clark, winner of a battlefield commission in Europe during World War II and captain of U.S.C.'s 1947 team. "What else could I say?" Clark was true to his word. He went as far away as the famed muscle factories of Pennsylvania to land Tackle Dan Ficca (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.). But Clark's prize finds were waiting at Mount Carmel High School, right in Southern Cal's own home town of Los Angeles. As high-school All-Americas, Mike and Marlin McKeever got offers from some...
...Freshman squad lost to the Green 25 to 30, although Harvard captain Ed Hamlin placed first. His teammates gave him meager support, as Dartmouth runners took second, third, and fourth positions...
This year the situation is reversed. The Indians, with only limited service from captain and star signal-caller Bill Gundy and all-Ivy halfback Jake Crouthamel, have been virtually impotent in losing to three strong opponents and tying hapless Brown...