Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman crew, Coach Bill Leavitt made only one addition before going to Red Top. The new oarsman is Dean Wood, who will row at five. Although underdogs like the rest of the Crimson crews, the freshmen, encouraged by their performance against Princeton in the Compton Cup race, should give the Elis a close battle...
...After eating the dust of John Landy and Jim Bailey while those two Aussies ran better-than-four-minute miles last month, Ireland's Ron Delany developed a taste for speed himself. Carefully pacing himself on the fast track at Compton, Calif., the Villanova sophomore kicked past Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen in the stretch and clocked a neat 3:59 flat. He had it all timed so nicely that he pulled Nielsen past the four-minute barrier with him. Nielsen's time: 3:59.1. ¶ Bulge-upholstered Paul Anderson, the 325-lb. strongman from Toccoa, Ga., played...
...Enrico C. S. Molnar of Compton, Calif., Episcopal priest, onetime Methodist : "To my mind our Communion most fully expresses the marks of being the 'extension of the Incarnation . . .' None of [my books] need be relegated to a hidden shelf, just because I am an Episcopalian. There is no Index! For in the Anglican Communion there is most fully expressed the basic Christian belief that God reveals Himself, not in esoteric abstract speculation, but in history, 'in events through which we event,' in a St. Francis, in a St. John Hus, in the Celtic Saints...
PRINCETON, May 19--In any other of the past 19 Compton Cup races the varsity crew would have set a cup record this afternoon, and would be considered a strong favorite to win the Yale race on June 16. The crew rowed a handsome race covering the mile and three-quarter course over Lake Carnegie in 8:46.8, over two seconds faster than the local cup record made by the 1954 Crimson eight...
This effort, however, was not enough to withstand Princeton's groomed oarsmen, who set a Compton Cup mark in defeating the Crimson, Dartmouth, and M.I.T. in that order. The victory established Princeton as the third best crew in Eastern competition, behind Cornell and Yale, and made the varsity an underdog against the Elis in June...