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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only men who are definitely lost for the clash with the Big Green. Joe Koufman, Ernie Sargeant, and Burgy Ayres all worked with the A team yesterday and should be ready to go tomorrow. All three have missed most of the contact work this week in order to get back into first-class shape...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: GRIDMEN IN SHAPE FOR INDIAN CLASH | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

Crosby's bunch was covered here briefly last week. Most important thing to understand about the band is that their rhythm is completely different from that played by most bands of today. It is two beats to a phrase, instead of four. As a result, you get a style of jazz that is more staccatto, with shorter melodic phrases, and all sorts of trick rhythmic effects achieved thru breaking up the beat. In other words, this is a white man's way of playing jazz, as opposed to the colored man's more lagging, slurring attack of long phrase...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

National American Legion champion, Jeanne Ladd of Swampscott, has already indicated her willingness to throw over Swampscott High for a Harvard affiliation, saying "they're nice boys; they generally get what they want?" Other fast-stepping twirlers are expected to follow Jeanne's lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRUM MAJORETTES FOR BAND WILL BE JUDGED BY CRIMSON | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

Contrast this situation with the one hundred per cent dearth in the East. New England college students never get any closer to drum majorettes than leering at their pictures in "Click." Here is a chance once and for all for Harvard to establish her intellectual supremacy. She can start a movement among the Ivy Colleges which will burn up the league. It might be objected that all-male educational institutions are in a slightly different position from the coed plants of the West, but what about the American Legion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAISE THE BATON AVERAGE | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

Complete rest has been decreed by medical authorities as the sole cure for the fleet captain's injured leg. The injured member was not aggravated in the Penn game, but his activity in the contest retarded all normal improvement. It is hoped that the layoff will get him in shape for the invasion of Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tough Dartmouth Tangle Looms As Harlowmen Lose Macdonald | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

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