Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know just about everybody on the squad now," Lamar said, "but of course the A squad is not yet final." The Andover game, first of six for the Yardlings, is expected to help a let in shaking down the team...
...lost but three first stringers from its 1948 two platoon system: Joe Quinn, offensive right guard, John Rogers, offensive right end, and Bob Dean, second string fullback and the team's best punter. The entire defensive platoon is back to a man, and if the word out of Ithaca may be considered Gospel, three excellent replacements have turned up for Quinn, Rogers, and Dean...
Only on Thursday do the two sets of football players switch over and see how the other half lives, and this is but a precautionary measure, in case the first two strings in one position should get injured and a man from the other platoon must be brought up to fill...
...Dana Palmer house was built in 1823. It got the first part of its name from the builders, the Dana family, who lived there for ten years. Richard Henry Dana, the author of "Two Years before the Mast," grew up in the house; his chum James Russell Lowell once tried to ride a pony up the front stairs...
...since it stood on the only hill in the Yard, the building was picked to be the University's first observatory. A skeptical classics professor reported to a friend that "there is a caboose set upon the roof with a telescope that commands an unobstructed view of all the chambers in the neighborhood." Not all the views were unobstructed, however. A local farmer moved a barn onto his place just south of Massachusetts Avenue, neatly eclipsing the top of Blue Hill, which the observatory was using for a transit sight. The University finally had to buy a right...