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...their second game in as many days, the Yardling hoop men chalked up a well-earned 29 to 22 victory over the Portland Junior College quintet yesterday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fourth Straight for '42 Cagers | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

With George F. Lowman '38, 1L former Varsity star as coach, the recently organized Claverly circuit basketball team will hold its first practice session tomorrow preparatory to a series of informal contests with House hoop teams during the winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLAVERLY QUINTET TO OPPOSE HOUSES | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

Without fanfare, well aware that it could not steal the spotlight from U. S. football even if its players wore hoop skirts and plumed hats, last week major-league hockey quietly sidled into the North American sport scene at Chicago and Toronto. At Chicago the World-Champion Chicago Blackhawks auspiciously began their five-month defense of the Stanley Cup by trouncing the New York Americans, 6-to-1. At Toronto the powerful Boston Bruins, generally regarded the best team last year despite Chicago's winning the title, nosed out the Toronto Maple Leafs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...year before Gullion went to Tennessee his hoop team at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, won the Indiana Intercollegiate championship with 24 victories and no losses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gullion, Cornell's New Hoop Coach, Comes from Tennessee | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

...story of Temple Commune in Jericho Centre, N. Y. The Temple was a group of 65 farmers who worked hard all day and in the evening held canning bees and seancés. Its women wore short tunics and ankle-length bloomers instead of world's clothes: hoop skirts and petticoats. Its men feared God and would do anything in the world for old Father Swann, once he got talking. The main building where the Templers slept had an elaborate lacy cornice and rounded corners to keep out evil spirits: Father Swann had built it according to the specifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Table-Rapping Utopia | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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