Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cross Country coach Bill McCurdy, known as a master of understatement, calls his present squad "a strong and experienced team." this year's team combines the talents of three freshman cross country teams which have shared one-loss over the past three seasons...
Depth, as much as ability is essential to a winning cross country team, for it must have at least five, not one or two runners who are capable of defeating the opposition. A cross country score is the total o the places of the first five men from each team to cross the finish line, one point for first, two for second, etc. Low team total wins. Twelve runners for each team run the four to five mile, usualy hilly, course. Seven places are allotted to each team, the last two adding to the point total...
...policy is to schedule local colleges, who not Boston University, or Holy Cross, instead of UMass and Tufts? Harvard is the only Ivy school to play just one outside game, and it would seem that for this one game Harvard would do well to play another "big brother" rather than one of its "little friends...
Died. William Avery (Billy) Bishop, 62, stocky, sandy-haired Canadian Hying ace who shot down 72 planes* during World War I, collected a chestful of medals (including Britain's Victoria Cross. France's Croix de guerre), later became an oil-firm vice president, was named honorary air marshal of Canada while recruiting flyers during World War II; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Palm Beach, Fla. Billy Bishop scorned stunt flying, grimly dived his single-seat Nieuport Scout to within 50 yards of his prey before firing a short, deadly burst from his Lewis gun. He shot down...
...checks (last year corporate donations of $100 and up totaled 40% of Community Chest donations, 34% of United Fund contributions), many businessmen are not content to discharge their public responsibilities with cash alone. Instead, more and more executives are donating time and talent to civic projects, from the Red Cross to slum clearance...