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...many ways, he seemed hardly the man for the job. He was a frail, redheaded Cornishman, known to most Britons simply as "Q." He wrote swashbuckling romances like Dead Man's Rock and The Astonishing History of Troy Town, so cock-a-hoop with adventure that he himself was "amazed ... at my own immoderation." He had been a dandy at Oxford, with a taste for bowler hats of different colors and loud checked suits ("What, another pair of trarsers!" Trinity's president would cry). He was also something of a radical who had denounced the Boer...
Fullback Chip Gannon has accepted an invitation to play in the annual North-South football game at Birmingham, Alabama, on Christmas Day, it was learned yesterday. Basketball Coach Bill Barclay his granted him a "leave of absence" from his position as hoop captain in order to make the trip...
These players include hoop captain Chip Gannon, now operating at fullback for Valpey; quarterback Bill Henry; and tailback Jim Kenary. The Crimson which opens against Brown at Providence on December 4, is now practicing five days a week. Coach Harclay isn't around on the weekends, since he has been scouting for Art Valpey this fall, and is now taking notes on Yale...
Football fever may be sweeping the Yard, but that doesn't bother basketball Coach Bill Barclay's varsity candidates. Thirty-six of them reported to Barclay last night at Hemenway Gymnasium for the Crimson's first 1948-49 hoop workout...
First on the program yesterday was Hugh Shepley '51, pictured at right practicing his specialty as a ringer in the annual Wellesley hoop races. Shepley also claimed acquaintanceship with indian clubs, rubber balls, and chinaware...