Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another year. After successively defeating Baltimore, Chicago, and Boston last Saturday and Sunday the Crimson squad downed the Philadelphia court team in the final match yesterday by a 4 to 1 score. After the match the team elected Herbert Noel Rawlins '27 of New York City, College title holder, who performed brilliantly throughout the championship play, as captain for next year...
Last year in Norway, a lithe, bespectacled U. S. youth fell into a friendly argument with a lean, puckery-faced young Norwegian. They were talking about their bodies. The U. S. disputant was Harold M. Osborne, 1924 Olympic high jump and decathlon champion, world's record-holder in both events. His contention was that he could compel his body to perform feats surpassing in dexterity and variety those of his interlocutor, Charles Hoff, world's champion pole-vaulter...
Much of its success has been due to Albert Henry ("Al") Wiggin, President 1911-17, Chairman of the Board 1918-21, holder of both jobs since 1921. Son of a smalltown, Massachusetts preacher, he could not afford to go to college. So, at 17, he got a clerk's job in a Boston bank; became an assistant national bank examiner at 23 and soon married Jessie Duncan Hayden of Boston. The panic of 1907 gave him his great opportunity. He had come to Manhattan shortly before. During the crisis J. P. Horgan found two young men upon whom he could...
...former University star, will reign supreme for another year as Massachusetts state squash champion, following his victory over R. S. Wright '26, tanking Crimson player, on the Union Boat Club courts yesterday afternoon. Wright forced the defending champion in every game but the superb court game of the title holder coupled with his greater experience were enough to carry the winner through in four games...
...loser flashed into brilliant form in the second game, which he won decisively and in the third contest, which the title holder captured only after a bitter deuce struggle. Wright fought stubbornly for every point in this game, making almost impossible gets on several occasions to save points...