Word: jim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Competition will even be stiff in the running events, the Crimson's forte. Big Jim Branson, Exeter sprinter, clocked the same times in the 100 and 200 yard dashes last week, as the Crimson's star. Dick Weiskopf...
...Princeton infield is one of the best in the circuit. It is headed by shortstop Jim Fairchild, 20-year-old Marine vet who played varsity ball in 1946 while a freshman. Fairchild, an outfielder on the Second Marine Division nine last year, stole 54 bases against reasonably tough opposition. Besides pitching, Dickman also emphasizes speed, and Fairchild has speed. He has already swiped ten bases and is aiming for a League record in that department...
Eliot is the hardest-hitting club. Roger Pugh, Jack Merril, Gordle Allen, Dick Saul, and Jim Rosslter are all dependable at the plate. Pugh is also a fine catcher, and Merril is a flashy and ubiquitous centerfielder...
...carried out diplomatically and efficiently, the policy will help to cure the services of one of their most serious ills. The Jim Crow policy of all the Armed Forces, plus the fact that many Negroes are, through no fault of their own, far below the educational standards for all but the most menial jobs, caused thousands of perfectly capable men to be lumped into miserable duties as stevedores and road-builders...
...demonstrated these long-sought abilities by completing five out of seven passes, two of them for touchdowns, and by once punting the ball 55 yards. He also carried the ball for a third score. Lowenstein is expected to contribute to Harvard's passing attack next fall; but unless Jim Kenary's, Jimmy Noouan's and/or Chuck Roach's dead throwing arms return from Limbo by next September, he is Harvard's passing attack...