Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet record in the 45-yard high hurdles at 5.6 trailed by a yard by Ted Sparrow, the Tufts athlete with whom Flint has been engaging in personal duels ever since prep school. Flint edged Sparrow in the Tufts-Northeastern- Harvard informal meet two weeks ago, but the Jumbo timber-topper reversed the process Saturday night...
...pounds Varsity heavyweight Pete Fuller got the third pin of the meet when he dropped the Jumbo unlimited man, 235-pounds Charlie Berndt, and pinned him with an over the head hold in 2:07 of the first period. In the 128-pound class Phil Busby defeated Paul Levy of Tufts in a 12 to 11 overtime decision...
...Flynn and Jim Feinberg, who were sidelined for the Tufts contest because of injuries, are both expected to be available against the Tigers, but Ned Dewey is not likely to be ready for another week. Mal Allen, starting tackle in the Jumbo contest, is not yet ready for contact work, and Howie Houston has been working in his left tackle post this week. Houston may start against the Orange and Black...
...nice things the "experts" had been saying they might, in a ridiculously easy triumph over a not-too-potent Tufts eleven, the price paid in casualties was surprisingly high. Captain Cloo O'Donnell, the sparkplug of the game, suffered a broken rib after his dazzling runback of a Jumbo punt early in the first period, and the mightly mite will be out of action for several weeks. The team's doctor should rule on the approximate date of his return today...
...band, sans the promised new uniforms, performed accurately and startlingly on the field between halves, outclassing a game but smaller Jumbo aggregation. A high-stepping, swivelhipped, well-padded blond drum majorette was far and away the best player of the afternoon . . . Just like old times when the Crimson band started in on the famous "Wintergreen" medley before the opening kick off . . . When the huge first "T" was formed by the band a Princeton scout was seen to note: "unbalanced T to the right." He closed his book and slunk away. Apre lui le deluge...