Word: crewe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Floyd Stahl's Varisty crew swings into action on Soldiers Field afternoon at 4 o'clock with a strong Alumni outfit providing the opposition. For the Crimson, the regular lineup will start the contest, and hurling duties will probably be divided equally among Slim Curtiss, Tom Mosley and Charley Brackett. Charley (No Hands) Heckel will be unable to play until the end of the week due to a sore throat...
...Bell. Not since 1921, when the E-6 went down at its moorings with a torpedo tube open, had the Navy had a submarine accident caused by mechanical failure or fault of the crew. Aboard a man-of-war floating above the 8-4 when she sank off Provincetown in 1927 with a loss of 40 lives, a thoughtful young officer named Allen R. McCann had been profoundly shocked by the inadequacy of rescue methods. Brooding over the problem of getting men out of a submarine, he designed a bell-shaped chamber which could be lowered from the surface...
...when Queen Elizabeth, motioning the King to follow, stepped from the train. Flustered aides rushed to the welcoming committee, demanded that the mayor appear to greet Their Majesties. White River has no mayor, so the Committee quickly chose one, who escorted the royal visitors down to meet the locomotive crew. After the usual ceremonies at Port Arthur and Fort William, the train proceeded...
...closely behind, rammed into it, flinging wreckage onto the adjoining track. On that track a fast fruit train, hauled by two locomotives, was booming along with an all-clear signal. It butted into the debris; a half-mile of cars slithered off the rails like a wounded snake. Three crew men were killed, four more badly hurt. It was the worst freight wreck the Pennsylvania had had on that division in 37 years...
Frederick P. Herter '42 was recently elected captain of the Yardling undefeated crew. Herter, a Bostonian and graduate of St. Paul's School, rows at the number 3 position in the Freshman boat...