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...Maroon and White usually fields a well-conditioned team and has had little trouble with injuries this season. The Crimson on the other hand, has sprains and pulled muscles to space. One of the big questions today will be how long the battered locals can play at top efficiency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Soccer Team Plays Springfield This Afternoon | 11/1/1950 | See Source »

Springfield's Joe Marshall and George Penndorf have scored four goals apiece to pace their team in that department. Marshal, who usually plays inside, will be shifted to wing for today's game. John Barbour and co-captain Tom Salmons have each scored three goals for the Maroon and White. Mallard Mason, with one goals, completes the center of the Springfield line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Soccer Team Plays Springfield This Afternoon | 11/1/1950 | See Source »

...Maroon and Gold were never expected to be in the game, and they didn't disappoint. Leicester fielded a fairly heavy and very slow squad that showed no effective offensive or defensive end play, no passing ability, no pass defense, and a pathetic lack of conditioning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '54 Football Team Plays Brandeis; Jayvees Smash Leicester J.C., 54-0 | 10/14/1950 | See Source »

Hammy Shea's Maroon and Gold team from Worcester has practiced T and single-wing formations in preparation for a comeback against the Crimson. Traditionally weak in the first few contests, Shea's 1948 version was routed by the jayvees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Opens With Leicester; Two Starters Will Not Play | 10/13/1950 | See Source »

...faced C. Thomas Patten was an evangelist in fancy maroon shirts. He wore cowboy hats with brims that were wide, and cowboy boots with toes that were narrow, and his congregation couldn't refuse him a thing. When he asked for money, they gave him money-for a choir loft that went up & down like the stage at Radio City Music Hall, for an electric Escalator that lifted worshipers up to a raised altar. These wonders never appeared, but in seven years in Oakland, Calif. Tom acquired nine cars, 46 suits, 200 pairs of boots and a cabin cruiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: How Many Say Amen? | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

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