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The Roller Derby is a watered down potpourri of several sports. It combines the speed of racing, the jamming of a six-day bicycle race, the blocking of football, the checking of hockey, and the team-play of basketball. It is played on an oval, highly-banked maconite track, 16...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

Points are scored every time a player on one team laps a member of the opposing team. A "jam" is an effort to score a point and occurs when one of the faster men on a team is shaken loose, usually on a crack-the-whip maneuver, and tries to...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

Eighteen Heroes. Next day a sharp-eyed sergeant in a B-17 spotted the two life rafts tied together just off his plane's left wing. The B-17 circled to drop smoke bombs and green-dye markers, then flew in low to release a parachute-borne "Flying Dutchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Rescue at Sea | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Since the coaches haven't finished dissecting Davey Nelson's scouting reports on Yale as yet, the light practice was confined to non-contact offensive drill, with the linemen putting in a little time against the dummies. A couple of laps around the practice field ended the outdoor work for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Week Starts With Light Drill | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

When the Student Council dropped the 1950 Album riddle in their laps last spring, ex-Editor Niki Arundel '50 and Assistant Editor Edward T. Kenyon '50 started shuffling the possibilities for a four-class yearbook publication. They organized a staff and sifted through information on yearbooks gleaned from other schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '314' Yearbook Replaces Dead Album | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

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