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...FITZGERALD, ex-Notre Dame gridder who at 170 pounds is the lightest regular on the, Eli squad, scored three touchdowns against the Crimson last year. He is a deceptively smooth runner whose passing ability is only excelled by that of Furse...
...little can a full-grown man weigh and still live? Canadian doctors this week believed they had treated the sickest, lightest, most wasted man on record...
...girl was an Oklahoma farmer's daughter, WAC T/4 Connie Grayson, 23, who was picked mostly because she was the lightest (106 lbs.) of all the G.I.s at Cambridge. The Americans called themselves "Bull College," after their billets in the famed Bull Hotel. They practiced three times a week for four weeks, trying to learn the mysteries of bumping races. The boats line up one after another, two lengths apart, and each tries to catch the shell ahead. Once the prow of the overtaking boat actually touches the other's stern, the overtaken boat loses one place...
...were too busy with the mere mechanics of existence; they could not listen to the rumblings of a shaking empire. It was of more immediate interest that seven lean years had slashed the average weight of the Oxford crew from 180 to 154 Ibs., forced it to order the lightest shell ever for the historic race with Cambridge (see SPORT). King George VI decreed that Ascot, once the world's swankest racing meet (grey toppers, lobster and champagne) would be held "strictly on austerity lines" (sack suits and sandwiches...
...down to an egg a week and no steaks. Crewmen, stroked by R.M.A. Bourne (a prisoner of the Germans for three years, whose father and grandfather had stroked and later coached the Oxford boat), averaged a puny 154 Ibs. Prewar average: 180 Ibs. Last week Oxford ordered the lightest boat in its history, for the 96th race with Cambridge March...