Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inadequate. The furniture just inside the front door is a collection of multi-colored leather chairs placed about a large red rug. Before settling down, the commuter must find a place for his coat on an overburdened clothes rack. In the basement, a student is apt to kick his locker rather than struggle with the old lock that opens the way to a minimum of space. Old ping pong tables, a billiard room with no pool table, and dingy lighting are all less than satisfactory. Even the television set hasn't been used for any length of time in months...
...Rockaway High School and St. Francis Prep broke up in a savage free-for-all. Some 150 spectators joined in and five players were casualties, two of them hospitalized. Far Rockaway's players, although they won 26-19, suffered further injury: three teen-age girls sneaked into their locker room, put the team's street clothes in the shower. Far Rockaway's players limped home in their uniforms, each carrying his bundle of wet clothes...
...game enthusiasm was high in the Field House last night and the traditional row of flares was set up to light a path for the squad as it came off the field. In the locker rooms, managers kept up a blare of Harvard band music, and most of the walls were marked with two words in chalk: "Beat Yale...
...with this remark the coach clenched his fist, took a long pull from his flask, and started to enter the locker room. "Anything else, Coach?" I asked...
...last big university fire indirectly spawned Dillon Field House. The former Solider Field locker building, built in 1894, had become antiquated when Clarance Dillon '05 offered the University money for a new building...