Word: letterman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much to hope for, but then, nobody thought Boston College would win by two goals over B.U. Wednesday night. Or that a team made up of 10 returning letterman and a 17-2 freshman squad that beat Harvard twice would be staking the salvation of a season on a single game once again...
...Fire. The second-and third-generation inheritors of a faith tend to reduce a passion into a habit. Short on spirit, long on technicality, they are the lettermen. Abruptly jumping 100 years, switching the scene to Pennsylvania, and abandoning historical characters, De Hartog introduces as his letterman a New World Quaker businessman named Isaac Woodhouse. This Early American success figure may have been sober, industrious and honest even with Indians. But, in De Hartog's words, he also showed a positive "genius for compromise." Quaker slaveowners, for instance, intimidated slaves by showing whips without ever actually using them...
Behind 18-3, Ritchie Starr started the rally with a 2-1 decision at 177. Then, Scanlon pinned Bill Bilder in 3:26, and Mareno pinned letterman Bill Zweig in the heavyweight match to clinch...
Pratt has been bothered by a bad back recently, but Barnaby predicted that the Crimson letterman would start today. "Lowell has enough experience and skill to overcome a small handicap at nine," he said...
...Crimson can stay close through 158, the tide may turn. Letterman Starr, Dave Scanlon (190) and Angelo Mareno (unlim.) are all healed and the Quakers return only Rich Zweig...