Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary's smart Coach Jimmy Phelan explained it: "He's a cross between Pavlova and Sonja Henie . . . and he has that Hawaiian rhythm." (Wedemeyer is half German, half Hawaiian.) In the fourth quarter, when a Fordham quick kick sailed over his head, Wedemeyer chased it back to his 30-yard line, then, as tacklers converged on him, kicked the ball right back. It rolled dead on Fordham's five. So flustered was Fordham that its quarterback called for a forward pass on the next play, pitched it smack into the arms of a St. Mary...
Died. Princess Ebba Bernadotte, 87, onetime lady-in-waiting at the Swedish Court, morganatic wife of King Gustav's younger brother Oscar Carl August, mother of Swedish Red Cross president Count Folke Bernadotte; in Stockholm...
...Saturday's Holy Cross game, donations mounting to $680 were given to the University Band. The fund will be used to pay for the band's Dartmouth trip, which will cost $450, and for buying new uniforms...
Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon was marked by hard running, rugged blocking, decisive tackling, and chalk every five yards. All seriousness aside though, those Harvards really went out there and showed "Ox" DaGrosa's Holy Cross "where the geeses goes barefoot...
Most amazing comment on the game came from a band of Crusaders quaffing in a local bar after it was all over: "We aren't sorry the Cross lost; they played a great game and we're proud of them. After all, they were up against the twentieth best team in the country...