Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young quintet won out in a rough game because it deserved to win, the play was fast and hard, both teams were nervous, but the Crimson never gave up, and managed to hold its slight lead to the final whistle. The team had an advantage in height over the Jumbos, Gray being especially useful, and they were greatly benefitted by Tufts' complete inability to sink free throws...
...longer as dependable as it once was. As Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, president of the Carnegie Corporation, recently wrote, "Harvard is still 'princeps,' but no longer 'facile princeps"; and the story is current that at one of America's great universities it is considered the height of academic distinction to receive an invitation from Harvard--and to decline it. Without complacence Harvard can accept the compliment implied in this witticism. "We cannot ignore the fact," said President Conant in his annual report, "that it is increasingly difficult to attract from other universities and research institutes the out standing men whom...
Climaxing several weeks of informal practice in which attention has been concentrated upon good form and upon jumping with a very short run, Harvard's Varsity and Freshman pole-vaulters will engage in a competition for height this afternoon in the Old Cage at Soldiers Field. Never in recent years has Harvard Field-Event Coach Jaakko J. Mikkola had so much material with which to attack Yale's nearly supreme vaulting tradition. The squad is composed first of two top-notch veterans, Frank Schumann '35, Varsity football guard, and J. D. Woodberry '35; then the holder of the present Freshman...
...totally new lineup will be the choice of Coach Wesley Fesler as the Harvard cagers go after their third straight victory of the year against Providence College tonight. As indicated by the game with Technology on Saturday, Captain Boys has been moved to forward where his height is of service on rebound shots, to make way for Long Bill Gray, elongated Sophomore at the pivot post...
Captain Dick Boys was moved to forward from the pivot post last night, a shift which presages the establishment of Gray as a regular. His height proved of assistance at this position, and he succeeded in caging two baskets and a free throw. Almost everyone on the squad saw action as the M.I.T. quintet wilted beneath the Crimson barrage...