Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacation wrestling season was brought to a thrilling conclusion Saturday, when both the Varsity and Freshman teams soundly trounced their Tufts rivals at Medford. The Varsity outfit piled up a total of 33 points against the Jumbo's 3, by defeating their opponents in every bout but one, while the Yardlings surprised everybody by crashing through with a 28 to 10 victory...
...German propaganda film, The Siegfried Line. They did not know that 100-odd young Argentine hotbloods. mostly athletes and amateur boxers, had also decided to see The Siegfried Line that night. When the Nazis began shouting "Heil Hitler!" the natives responded with "Abajo Hitler!" and a barrage of jumbo firecrackers. The lights went on, women screamed, and the Argentines systematically went to work on the Hitlerites. Police who tried to break up the melee had their clubs snatched and used on the Germans. Two score Argentines were arrested and released next day. Showing of The Siegfried Line was banned...
...second dazzling Negro star is Boston's own Ed Dugger of Tufts College. An amazingly versatile athlete, the Jumbo flash will probably limit himself to both hurdles in the intercollegiates. He is thought to be capable of a 14 second 120-yard high hurdles race and 22.6 low hurdles race on the same afternoon. Against as fine a field of Eastern hurdlers as ever has been collected, Dugger will have to go all out to win both hurdle races. If Bill Atkinson, intercollegiate two mile champion, was able to run, little Tufts College from Medford might bowl over the giants...
Leading the counter-offensive will be Captain Tom Healey of the Stahlmen, who is out to bag his first victory over Hatch. Healey is smarting under two defeats meted out to him by the Jumbo leader last season...
Meanwhile Adolph Samborski's strong Yardling nine meets the Jumbo yearling crop in a contest to be played at the Medford diamond at three o'clock. Mort Waldstein, pitcher, and Bill Barnes, first baseman, stand out on a well-balanced squad...