Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preliminary game to the Varsity exhibition match, the Jayvee five meets the Coast Guard reserve aggregation at 7 o'clock tomorrow at the Indoor Athletic building gym. Floyd Stahl's squad faces its first test of actual competition against the Boston station's team in a contest that will be marked by the inauguration of the new Freshman eligibility rule in winter athletic annals...
...while wartime transportation problems have effectively put the damper on most of the season, the Yale match on February 6 and the Intercollegiate match, not yet definitely dated, remain to Barnaby as pillars around which to build his season. Even the Penn-Princeton matches, traditionally an intercollegiate opener, have been officially called off. There is just a chance, according to Barnaby, that his match will be played informally in New York during the Christmas vacation, opening Ivy League competition...
...players that Barnaby will use, when and if he gets a chance, are strong. Gaelen Felt '43 captains the team and occupies the number one spot, where he played last year. Felt, an exceptionally steady player, won his Yale match last year 3-0 while the team as a whole was losing...
...third rankings are held by Decker Orr and Tom Sears, probably in that order. Orr, a hard-hitter who was ineligible last year, and Sears, who plays a similar game, are both regarded by Barnaby as distinct threats to Felt's number one rank. Sears lost his Yale match last year 3-2 to Dick Cooley, who later reached the final round in the Intercollegiate Championships...
Emceed by S-O Richard Breen, the show included a skit by an unknown radio expert, who explained the mysteries of how to oscillate waves, with blackboard drawings to match. He was followed on the all-star bill by Bos'n Pen land giving a bewildered account of a baseball game in "the bloomin' yonkee stadium...