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...attraction was Bob Rittenburg, captain of the varsity track team, who is making his first appearance in a Crimson football uniform. Rittenburg, outstanding athlete in the Israeli Maccabiad games last year, is currently a JV fullback...
Three thousand Jewish athletes from 27 countries last week paraded through Tel Aviv (''Hill of Spring") in Palestine, for the opening of the first Maccabiad. Wrongly described as the "Jewish Olympics," the Maccabean Games were organized by the World Maccabee Union, named for the Israelite hero, Judas Maccabaeus. The games began when 120 pigeons in flocks of ten?messengers to the Twelve Tribes of Israel?were allowed to fly to their homes in various parts of Palestine. Led by Tel Aviv's Mayor Dizengoff riding on a white horse, the 3,000 athletes, aged 5 to 60, marched...
...Maccabiad was the first of the five international games to be held this year. Others...
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