Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second man on the varsity delegation, Cal Place, is one of the toughest match players in college squash and will prove very tough to handle for any seeded player he runs across. Place's easy three-game win over Yale's Harvey Sloane, who is eighth seeded in the tournament, is evidence of Place's role as a potential up-setter of the seedings...
...Noble will be at 147, with King Holmes at 157. Bob Foster at 167 and Captain Bob Gilmor at 177 will both be shooting for their eighth wins of the season. Foster has gone unbeaten, tying one, while Gilmor has lost one. Culbert at heavyweight has a record of one win and two losses...
...varsity's eighth consecutive victory since losing to B.U. in the Bean-pot Tourney. The Crimson's record is now 17-3. Meanwhile, in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson extended its streak to 15 wins, beating the Terriers, 4-1. St. Lawrence had beaten B.U. the previous night...
...cars that rolled onto the hard sands of Daytona Beach last week for the eighth annual safety and performance trials of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Rating, Inc. were-as the admen promised-roomier, lower and more powerfully propelled than ever before. To some of the spectators who crowded the dunes and gabbled knowingly of racing cams and fuel injection and four-barrel carburetors, the competition was a sporting event. To auto-industry pitchmen, it was the beginning of a multimillion-dollar campaign designed to keep a performance-happy public popeyed and buying...
...most significant event was the special "Big Three" competition between Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth. Again, Chevrolet spread-eagled the field. Chevies finished one-two-three with a top speed of 118.460 m.p.h., nearly 7 m.p.h. faster than the nearest Ford, which finished fourth. The fastest Plymouth trailed in eighth place. In the 160-mile beach-and-road race for new convertibles Atlanta's Tim Flock set a NASCAR record of 101.32 m.p.h. in a 335-h.p. Mercury...