Word: clean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known to University crew annals. Coming to the University in the fall of 1915, Mr. Haines, together with Mr. R. F. Herrick '90, developed a crew which set the record time for four miles on the Thames, broke Yale's string of crew victories, and gave the University a clean sweep of three triumphs on the Thames the next spring. For two years the war interrupted Mr. Haines' work, but since the resumption of crew activities in 1919, he has won and lost one race to Yale, last year seeing his boat cross the finish line eight lengths...
...higher circles of intercollegiate athletics. The brilliant performance of Captain McMillin and his team-mates at Cambridge proved them to be worthy opponents. "It was a great game," said Percy Haughton; "one of the best I ever saw in the Stadium." The Southerners left behind them a reputation for clean play and sportsmanship that earned them a lasting welcome at Harvard. Now the wearers of the White and Gold again invade a northern field of sport; they bring a winning combination, a veteran team. This is the first year that Harvard--under the guidance of Coach Wachter--has accorded basketball...
...Dartmouth team has a clean record so far this year, having won all her three meets by fairly large scores. Although the Green is weak in the rings and in the clubs, it has a strong, well-balanced team in other events...
...prominent in the formation of the American Legion, finally being nominated for the presidency of the organization, which honor he declined. In 1919 he was elected to the New York State Assembly, where he has been an advocate of many reform bills and prominent in the fight for clean politics. He is also the author of "Average Americans," which was published...
...rather a narrow rink on which to play, close scrimmaging near the goals, especially that of the Freshmen, was a marked feature; it was from scrambles such as these that the schoolboys scored three of their four scores, succeeding only once in actually penetrating the Crimson defense for a clean goal...