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Some were distressed by the traces of pastoral serenity. "If it were Penn. State, it would be beer on the table," said one collegian with a large paunch. A girl ventured that "They should play silly games at punches." She was admirably built to play silly games...
Captain Burt Gay, winner of the New York Invitation Tournament over Christmas vacation and top-rated collegian in the country, will probably play number one for the Tigers. He'll be pitted against Harvard captain Dinny Adams in a match which looks like a tossup...
...high jump, and, like Lynch, took a fourth. A week later, in the USTFF championships at Corvallis, Ore., John Bakkensen threw the discus 179 ft., 9 in., and John Ogden ran a 1:51.6 half-mile. All the parformances were among the best of the year by any Eastern Collegian...
...cage record in the shotput should be broken tonight. Northeastern's Carl Vallin will probably put his name into the Harvard record books unless Art Croasdale comes up with the best put of his career. Minutes afterwards, Croasdale squares off with Northeastern's Bill Corsetti, the only other collegian in the Boston area who can break the 60-foot mark in the 35-pound weight throw...
Money flowed like ballpark beer. One promising collegian reportedly returned to his dormitory room to find $25,000 in cash laid out neatly on his bed. When the Green Bay Packers lost out to the A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers in the bidding for Baylor End Larry Elkins, Packer Coach Vince Lombardi cracked: "We missed by a couple of hundred thousand." The New York Giants went all the way to $100,000 to land Auburn's rugged (6 ft. 2 in., 221 Ibs.) Tucker Frederickson, the "big back" that Allie Sherman wanted in order to beef up the Giants...