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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting the usual lineup of Red Lowman and Lev White as forwards, Captain Bill Gray at center, and Lupe Lupien and Vern Struck as guards, Coach Wes Fesler feels the Crimson have a good chance for victory in spite of the defeat at Dartmouth last Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOP TEAM ENCOUNTERS STRONG COLUMBIA CLUB | 2/20/1937 | See Source »

Columbia comes here with practically the same personnel that enabled them to take the league title without a defeat last year, but the loss by graduation of Bill Nash has changed them into a second place club. A loss at the hands of Harvard will mean that they will be displaced, however, and will drop to fourth place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOP TEAM ENCOUNTERS STRONG COLUMBIA CLUB | 2/20/1937 | See Source »

Handicapped by the absence of Harvey Ross, ace 118-pound wrestler, Crimson lightweights have had to move down a peg, Petronik taking Ach's place in the 126-pound class. Still bitter over the 23-11 defeat which they suffered at Princeton's hands last Saturday, the matmen hope to make a comeback by crushing Navy, recently fattened out by Penn State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor Week-end Sports | 2/20/1937 | See Source »

...Henry Lamer was coaching which toppled the Cavallers off their six year pinnacle last season; it was a Harvard team that Dick Harlow coached which humillated these same Cavallers by a smothering score of 65-0 in the Stadium last fall. The excuse of the Southerners after this football defeat was that all football was down in Charlottesville was a method of keeping the boxers in trim. Boxing is a major sport, the major sport, at Virginia; and 6000 people are expected to troop in Saturday night to read in their elaborate programs the biographies of the Harvard boxers, hoping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/19/1937 | See Source »

...only opponent this year, has an undefeated record for his few bouts. He has improved fast this year after being out all last season with a broken hand. Another Senior, Johnny Brassill, who will be boxing for the first time this season, faces Marion Brooks, whose only defeat so far this year was in the Maryland meet; and the winner of that bout was no less a boxer than the amateur champion at his 145-pound clss, Nedamansky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/19/1937 | See Source »

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