Word: gainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson tailback Dick Clasby--third-ranking ground-gainer in the nation--is a mere 166 yards short of Dick Kazmaier's single season Ivy League rushing record, according to figures released yesterday...
Crimson fullback John Culver, who gained 174 yards rushing against Springfield last Saturday, is the 16th top ground gainer in the country, according to this week's N.C.A.A. statistics. The stocky junior ran the ball for 28 plays in his single game, for an average of 6.2 yards a carry...
...Cambridge last year, Joe Chandler. Then only a sophomore, Chandler drove through the Crimson line consistently despite a glaring lack of blockers. Although he was injured in the next game and was out for most of the season, the husky halfback was the team's second leading ground gainer, and averaged four yards a carry...
...takeoff, 3) technique and grace in the air, 4) entry into the water. Complicated acrobatics can win high point credit-but they also risk a bellyflop and an irretrievable point loss. To qualify with seven rivals in the finals last week, Skippy performed six dives including a half gainer, a back jackknife and a cutaway 1½ somersault...
...California's shapely Mrs. Patricia McCormick, already winner of the women's springboard-diving title, climbed the ladder, and with a superb exhibition (e.g., a running, flying one-and-a-half somersault with pike, a handstand with forward cut-through half-gainer layout) took first place in the high-diving contest. Paula Jean Myers and Mrs. Juno Stover Irwin took second and third to make the sweep...