Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tigers, who Crimson captain Hal Churchill said, "played the best rugby of any of our opponents," dominated play throughout most of the game and capitalized on numerous Crimson mistakes. A large crowd, enhanced by the youth and beauty of Princeton's spring weekend, watched the Crimson fumble away the ball again and again, as the three quarter line put on its weakest display of the year...
...Captain Ned Weld led off the victory with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 win over Princeton's 6 ft., 4 in. Dave Brechner at first singles. Weld found Brechner's two forehands and long reach puzzling only in the first set, and once he had figured out the Tiger's game, the Crimson captain had a fairly easy time...
...meet would have been a complete rout for the Crimson if it had not been for Quaker George Katterman. One of the strongest runners ever to compete here, Katterman won the 440 handily when Crimson captain Albie Gordon waited too long before challenging...
...when the plane's engine flamed out. No slouch in an emergency, Stapp ejected himself at "somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000 feet," back-somersaulted four times, then opened his chute to float to earth. His only memorable injury: a chipped ankle bone. His pilot, Captain Harry B. Davis, a Negro fighter-pilot veteran of the Korean war, was not so lucky, died after his parachute failed to bloom properly...
...captain Albie Gordon will need a strong performance to defeat Quaker George Katterman and Cornell's Murray Moulding. Both Katterman and Moulding can break 49.0 with ease, and the Penn ace is an especially strong and dangerous competitor...