Word: earl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...track season. Coming from nowhere to win the National A.A.U. championship with a 4:08.7 mile indoors and 3:50.2 for 1,500 meters outdoors, he was expected to be 1943's supermiler. But in last week's mile Dodds lost to an unrecognized challenger: Earl Mitchell, University of Indiana senior.* Trailing Dodds by some ten yards from the halfway mark until the final lap, the Hoosier then licked Dodds by four full yards in the second fastest mile (4:08.6) in 36 Millrose Games. Fastest: Chuck Fenske...
With the same grit and crude determination that resulted in last October's Comeford to Lyle miracle at the expense of another Tiger team, Earl Brown's rags-to-riches quintet never stopped fighting, running, scrambling. Not until they had shown their Nassau "superiors" who was boss under the backboard, and out in the keyhole, where the pivot and jump shots of Burditt, Dean Hennessey, Hugh Hyde, and George Dillon put Princeton's pot-shooters to shame. shame...
...Earl Brown's varsity slipped badly in the second half with the Blue tying the score at 24-all and then keeping on the victory road to swamp the Crimson in a late hour rally. Captain Bunks Burditt and Dean Hennessy did half the Harvard scoring with ten points apiece, but Columbia captain Les Martens led the game scoring with 14. Walter Budko totaled 18 points...
...Coach Earl Brown's men will have their hands full with the Morningside Heights cagers. The Lions have won only one of three Ivy League contests thus far, but their home court is known far and wide as the toughest floor in the loop for a visiting team to crack...
Technically speaking, the Crimson basketball team ended a three game losing streak Saturday night with its 43 to 38 triumph over Boston University at the Indoor Athletic Building. Strictly speaking, Coach Earl Brown's men are still a long way from their pre-Christmas form, and only an abrupt about-face can lift their noses out of the Ivy League cellar...