Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academic pressures, Princeton was not represented, and the championship was confined to competition between Harvard and Yale. In this situation Yale was able to win but one match. At the number one position in team competition, Captain Roger Tuckerman efficiently defeated Yale's Roy Plum 6-2, 6-1. Brothers Dwight and John Davis also won for the Crimson, defeating Eli hopefuls Dinny Phipps and Richard Collier...
...from the shock currents of life. Haunted by nameless terrors, persecuted by everybody around him, he stumbles down the dark corridors of his world like a crippled blind man, lacking even the tragic dignity that a suggestion of malevolent fate might give his life. He is ridiculed by his captain (Tenor Paul Franke), who seems to stand for all the bluster of petty militarism. He is used as a guinea pig by a doctor (Bass Karl Doench), a sadistic, fanatical embodiment of science. Finally, he is betrayed by his sluttish mistress Marie (Soprano Eleanor Steber), and he stabs her. Wozzeck...
...horror of the murder is conveyed in a howling, brassy crescendo in the orchestra that gives way abruptly to the tinselly tinkle of a café piano; Wozzeck's morbid fears are unforgettably etched in a single, slithering pianissimo in the strings; the cowardice that lurks beneath the captain's bluster becomes apparent in his occasional lapses into shrill, falsetto shrieking...
...foil, Captain Bill Trebilcock, Dave Johnson, and Phill Charat all turned in 4-6 records...
Throughout the season Bob Foster and captain Joe Noble had been considered the only Crimson wrestlers who had a chance to win their divisions, but even this slim hope received a blow this week as Noble was forced out of action with an injury. Foster remains as the varsity's top threat--probably the only threat--in the 177-lb. division...