Word: center
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lyric writers (there are several) must have felt that another musical with a New York theme was about due, a month or so having lapsed since the last one. Consequently there are a couple of songs in which the chorus shouts loud hosannas for such things as Rockefeller Center, the subway system, Lord & Taylor (remember the dear dead days when everybody was singing songs about Macy's?), and, of course, Fifth Avenue. "From Dubuque to Westminster Abbey they want the Fifth Avenue Look," they chant. And there's the inevitable song about how lonely a fellow can be in this...
...Captain Dave Key, Carman, and Bill Garrity leads ni total scoring, with 32 points on 16 goals and 16 assists. In the light-blinking department, Doug Anderson is high man with eight goals. He has also registered two assists. Best playmaker so far has been the former Exeter center, Miles Huntington, who has been operating on the same line with Dave Abbot for the past five years, here and previously at Exeter. He has set up eight goals this winter, while scoring five himself...
William H. Lewis '95, Virginia-born Negro center, who achieved fame on Harvard football teams in 1892 and 1893 and later became a prominent Boston criminal lawyer, died yesterday...
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Twice during the two years he starred at center for the Crimson Lewis captained Harvard elevens. He led the football varsity for a portion of a game against Pennsylvania in 1892 and then again served as captain against Princeton the following year. Lewis thus precedes Levi Jackson of Yale as the Ivy League's first colored football captain by 57 years. In 1912 Walter Camp placed Lewis on his all time All-American team...