Word: dan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started well enough. Senior southpaw Jim McCandlish held Penn hitless for the first three innings while his teammates were collecting two tallies off the Quaker hurler, Marc Schoenfield. The big blows for Harvard were two long triples by Dan Hootstein and Pete Karegeannes, each of which would have been inside-the-park home runs except for the muddy outfield grass...
...Henry Prideaux had bad luck in World War I. In his first cavalry charge, he was taken prisoner. Then, happily for him, Britain decided to send an expeditionary force to Russia in hopes of defeating the Bolsheviks. Prideaux promptly volunteered, led a brilliant cavalry attack on the Reds at Dan-koi, and emerged with the D.S.O., and speedy advance up the military list...
...World War II, Prideaux has within his grasp the command of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe should Hitler invade Poland. At this moment, a letter appears in a British magazine, suggesting that Prideaux had actually blundered at Dan-koi and, in fact, was not present when needed. Prideaux, naturally, sues for libel, whereupon the whole story is re-enacted for judge and reader...
Finally in the sixth inning Harvard got its bats unlimbered. Pete Smith drew a walk, Bob Cunningham and Dan Hootstein singled to load the bases and center fielder Carter Lord smacked a double to drive home Smith and Cunningham...
...Senior Dan Gleason, the Club president, scored a try in the final period to seal the victory, as Harvard displayed tremendous teamwork and defense to keep Yale from penetrating...