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Last Saturday this same unsuccessful team, frustrated on the same unsuccessful team, frustrated on the grid, the b-ball court and the diamond by the some pitiable score, and hardened by a year of the fickle cruskies which plague the world's most powerful University, decided not to show. The reason: A mild drizzle, brought on by Hurricane Anne, had dampened the sod of Soldiers Field...
Achilles had gone much the same way. Charles U. Daly -- the man who took the addidas from El Hefe's wounded wing but could not fill the bill -- predicted a return by softball season. It was not to be. The Crime won on the court and the diamond alike, by coincidental 23-2 margins...
Lute Aparicio has played more baseball games at shortstop than any other human being extant or otherwise. The number of steps he has run on a major league diamond is beyond compilation, if not beyond belief. On Monday night in Detroit he took the step that will be remembered more than any of the other countless millions for after two decades of brilliant fielding, masterful base running and nearly 2,500 career hits. Lattle Luts, the Veaezuelan wonder, fell down...
Williams using a four man diamond defense with a center sweeper, identical to the defense employed by the Crimson last season, saw the game slip away in the first half when Felix Adedeji, positioning himself in front of the sweeper, picked up his second and third goals of the season within a five-minute span. Adedeji scored the second while facing away from the goal, flicking the ball over with his foot...
Taking into account the apparent weakness here. Munro has shuffled some personnel and realigned his defensive formation. Last year Harvard played a "diamond" alignment employing center back and two sweepers behind the wings. This year, however, Munro has opted for a somewhat safer, less aggressive diagonal defense involving less man to man, and more area coverage, somewhat skin to a rotating zone defense in football...