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...forward combinations, tested with success in Saturday's win over Dartmouth, gallantly rose to the occasion. Bob Owen, Lyle Guttu, and Pete Summers, encouraged by a fluke screen shot score earlier by Dennis Little all batted the puck past hapless Providence goalie Eddie Hornstein in the closing ten minutes to pull the surprise win. The Friars upset the Crimson in a pre-Christmas Garden match by a score exactly the reverse of tonight...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Varsity Sextet Defeats Friars, 5-4, With Four Scores in Third Period | 1/11/1956 | See Source »

...Yardling hockey team stretched its unbeaten, untied streak to three yesterday in a first and second-period barrage that left hapless but plucky Belmont High too far behind to recoup early Crimson goals. The final score was freshmen 11, Belmont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Six Beats Belmont School, 11-3 | 12/14/1955 | See Source »

Lowell's general ineptness allowed Coach Bruce Munro to use his entire squad. The team plays an equally hapless Brown squad tomorrow at 2 p.m. in Providence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Soccer Squad Wins, 5-0 | 11/10/1955 | See Source »

...first requisitions were few, and Florentines were amused at the procedure. Scouts spotted an empty villa. In great secrecy, La Pira signed the requisition or der the night before. Next morning early, the decree was delivered to the owner. An hour later, before the hapless owner had time to move in fake tenants, a task force arrived at the villa comprising a requisition functionary, a blacksmith (in case the owner had barred the doors), two city cops on motorcycles ("policemen on motorcycles are always more impressive,'' (explained La Pira), and sometimes La Pira himself. In a matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Little Political Pope | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...Cleveland Indians a double-header with the seventh-place Senators (8-2, 13-4), dropped them from a first-place tie to No. 3, one game out. The Boston Red Sox kept coming, powered by Homer-hitters Grady Hatton, Ted Williams, and Eddie Joost; they knocked off the hapless Athletics, 14-2, wound up only 3½ games out of first place. CJ In Philadelphia, green-eyed Barbara Breit, 17, defeated Mexico City's Maria Reyes, 6-2, 6-1, to win the U.S. girls' grass-court tennis championship for the second straight year, then joined Diane Wooton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

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