Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Dartmouth College lured Earl Brown, former basketball coach and assistant football coach at Harvard, up to Hanover, they thought that they had obtained the man behind Crimson athletics. Actually, however, they might have come closer to their goal if they had gone after our versatile Floyd Stahl, who is, among other things, coach of the Varsity baseball team...
Most U.S. citizens never saw a game of polo, but people who got no closer to one than the rotogravure sections knew that Tommy Hitchcock played it. For nearly 20 years he was the greatest polo player in the U.S. and probably in the world...
When he slept Frossia watched him helplessly. "She stood, observing the grimy sunken cheeks, the matted hair, the black-rimmed nails, the bony, bared chest. She got hold of one emaciated hand, brought her ear closer to his face, called his name, but he did not hear her. His blackened mouth continued moving. She bent down and heard a child's broken, muted patter-the young man on Anna's sofa was back in the nursery, afraid of dark corners and curtained windows, and, listening, Frossia was ashamed of her earlier hardness...
There were three of them, a hundred yards or more apart, and as we came closer we could see that they were men and that they were dead. They were bobbing up and down in the water with their arms stretched out ridiculously straight and stiff. We could see a V of white undershirt at their necks and the ripples breaking over the toes of their brogans...
Practice every afternoon this week has strengthened the Crimson team considerably, and closer coordination among the individual players has been achieved, according to Captain Steve Ausnit '45. Coach Syd Cabot has re-arranged the backfield, while Lieutenant Commander Kear of the Royal New Zealand Navy, whose team swamped the Crimson by 12 to 5 last week, has been coaching the Harvard forwards...