Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Doane Nichols 53, of Westport, Connecticut, and Eliot House, was elected captain of the 1952 varsity football team yesterday at a meeting of 1951 lettermen in Dillon Field House...
Varsity manager John Kelso '53, of Westport, Connecticut, and Eliot House, moved up to undergraduate manager of football: Francis Millet '54, of Chappaqua. New York, and Claverly Hall, became varsity manager; and John Chatfield '55, of Cincinnati and Massachusetts Hall, won the freshman managerial competition...
Last week Dr. Herbert L. Everett of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station told about a frustrated petunia that remains forever virgin and so goes right on flowering. Dr. Everett crossed two widely different varieties of petunia. One of the offspring was sterile; the flowers had proper female ovules but no fertile male pollen. By crossing and recrossing, Dr. Everett can now make most kinds of petunias sterile. They flaunt their flowers hopefully, inviting bees to visit them. The bees come as usual, but the flowers cannot dust them with fertilizing pollen. So the desperate virgin, to its own frustration...
Nichols, a 220-pound junior from Westport, Connecticut, was first string tackle for the '53 freshman team and has played at that position with the varsity for the past two years. His offensive aggressiveness and defensive immovability has made him the Crimson's most valuable lineman...
Yale's 5 to 2 win over Connecticut early in the season proved the halfback line of Charlie Safford, Mac Quarrie, and John Howson is the mainstay of the Blue team. Crimson coach Andrew "Poley" Guyda has shuffled his lineup to give Captain Mauricio Toro a chance to score at left inside. Alex Haegler moves back to fullback, while Ruskin Mcintosh will take left half and Charles Jobbins will shirt to center half...