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...hapless Gold Coasters had a completely bad day, as Kirkland defeated them in the "A" squash league three matches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop's Sextet Whips Adams 8-1; Dudley Triumphs | 12/18/1951 | See Source »

Sole credit for this fantastic upsurge belongs to the men of the team. Certainly the newspapers did not strain themselves to lend encouragement. Even after the Army win, Arthur Daley of the New york Times referred to "hapless Harvard," and Life magazine snidely remarked that "the impossible has happened, Harvard won a football game." But the squad went on about its business...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/29/1951 | See Source »

...hapless Gold Coasters team, tied for last place in the House league, meets the rival Saybrook Slaves at 3:15 p.m. Saybrook has a passing attack--Bill Berkeley to ends Ed Schmultz and Gene Zabrowski--that provides most of its offense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleven Intramural Teams to Engage Yale Colleges Today | 11/23/1951 | See Source »

...hapless Gold Coasters team, tied for last place in the House league, meets the rival Saybrook Slaves at 3:15 p.m. Saybrook has a passing attack--Bill Berkeley to ends Ed Schmultz and Gene Zabrowski--that provides most of its offense...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Professors Hit Red Bill, Attack Dever's Signing | 11/23/1951 | See Source »

...Lawrence ("Yogi") Berra, the New York Yankees' hard-hitting (27 homers) catcher, the Baseball Writers' poll as most valuable American League player of the year. In close second place: St. Louis Pitcher Ned Carver, who won 20 games for the hapless Browns. ¶ Colonel Humberto Mariles of the Mexican Army equestrian team, five of nine jumping contests, a record individual performance, at the National Horse Show; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. ¶Stanford University's football team, an inside track to the Rose Bowl by upsetting the University of Southern California with three fourth-quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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