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Even before the end of the football season, newly-appointed basketball coach Bill Barelay was busy experimenting with the team whose predecessor had represented New England in the NCAA hoop tourney. Barelay introduced a modified western style of ball, stressed teamplay, and produced a quintet that managed to win more games than it lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burdened But Unbowed, John Harvard Faced Peace Again | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...HOOP RACE--Purse, one hundred added; for senior maidens: one furlong. Start, jumbled; won, driving: place, faltering. Post 7:15 Winner, blond, by Sheer Drive out of Desperation. Trainer Mac Horton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Jersey Filly Captures Waban Classic | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

...Where's my dress?" said Ellen Carol Van Deusen, Wellesley '47, after booting home a winner in yesterday morning's sixty-ninth running of the traditional Waban Hoop Race for maritally minded females...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Jersey Filly Captures Waban Classic | 5/15/1947 | See Source »

Rain, mud, and a girl's natural reluctance to get her feet wet combined this morning to scratch the tradition infested Wellesley hoop race for the third consecutive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rumor of Fix as Wellesley Twice Postpones Hoop Race | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

Local tipsters were rudely jointed out of plans for an early-morning cleanup yesterday when wet grounds and a heavy track caused postponement of the annual Hoop Derby, scheduled for a dawn start on Wellesley's templed hills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain Flattens Hoops as Girls Plan Early Roller Rematch | 5/2/1947 | See Source »

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