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Yale, despite a dearth of boats of its own, is represented this year by two junior sailing champions, Bobby Monetti and Bobby Coulson. It is because of these two men that the Eli is having such a frolic in sailing competition this spring...
...among the '52 football players at this time is right end Fred Ravreby. Six foot three inch Ravreby spent the winter knocking people out of the boxing room and then started out the spring practice as a tackle. The sudden dearth, however, of right ends, plus Ravreby height and speed caused the switch to end, and here he will probably remain this fall. If he continues to improve, Fred Ravreby is the best bet among the freshmen to make the 1949 football squad...
Since World War II first disrupted the flow of young ballplayers up through the minors eight years ago, not a single slugging first-baseman had reached the majors. The dearth of new catchers was just as serious. There wasn't a hard-hitting catcher in either league or one who could whip the ball down to second-base with the authority of a Bill Dickey or a Mickey Cochrane...
...Valpey through his father-in-law, Ozzie Cowles, who was basketball coach in 1947 at Michigan, and is now mentor at Minnesota. After graduating from Iowa Teachers, Ben discovered there was a dearth of high school coaching jobs in Iowa. He went east to Michigan both to visit his wife's family, and to locate a coaching...
...shortage of good young fighters was certainly acute. In gyms and fight clubs the U.S. over, the hard-eyed operators who make boxing their business scratched heads and tried to figure out the reason. After World War I there had been no dearth of fighters: there were Dempsey, Paul Berlenbach, Jack Delaney, Young Stribling and a raft of others...