Word: davisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jimmy Archey plays the best trombone in the east at Jimmy Ryan's, on the once famous segment of 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth. Pops Foster was already the best bass player when your father was half your age. Wild Bill Davison leads the band at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street emporium, along with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder. Ralph Sutton plays between sets. Nick's features Pee Wee Erwin's enthusiastic group at 10th and Seventh...
Other individual leaders were Kazmaier (rushing--707 yards), Brown's Bob MacConnell (Punting--39.2 yards), Columbia's Don McLean (receiving--492 yards), and Penn's Alan Corbo and Princeton's Jack Davison (scoring--60 points each...
Filling out the second team backfield were Jeff Fleischmann, Cornell; Bill Roberts, Dartmouth; and Jack Davison, Princeton...
...this time the Club threw aside the pleasant but essentially conventional and commonplace music which college glee clubs have always sung, divorced itself from the banjo and mandolin clubs of the College, and undertook the experiment of singing first-rate music, classical and modern. With Dr. Davison presentation of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, world premiere the Club suddenly came into prominence as one of America's outstanding men's choruses...
...Upon Dr. Davison's retirement, Professor G. Wallace Woodworth '24 continued to enlarge the Club's reportoire, vary its style, and to concentrate basically on further exploration of classical choral work. Simultaneously, and on the light side, the programs of the Club drew on the vast literature of folk songs, the glees and catches of the eighteenth century, and the gay operettas of Offenbach, Johann Strauss, and Gilbert and Sillivan...