Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace their men who had fallen. Convicts serving light sentences, men up to 46 and those once rejected for physical incapacity were rushed into uniform. Any man of any nationality who would volunteer, regardless of military experience, was eagerly recruited. As was shown in Spain, these are no match for trained troops...
...difficulty of prediction, however, lies mainly in the outcome of individual matches. The Blue boys have their strength in very nearly the same weights as the Crimson, and this naturally throws the burden of the match on the secondary wrestlers...
Yale has been tied by Penn, beaten Princeton in a close match but practically whitwashed Columbia. Of course, the Harvard team did lose to Columbia, but it had a much more impressive record with the other two teams than the Elis...
Comparative scores are impossible to overlook in the impending wrestling match with Yale, but at points they are deceiving, especially when the outcome of the Harvard-Columbia meet is figured in. Even so, they point out one thing; and that is that the Crimson team is slightly favored today at 8 o'clock...
...Schoenberg should win. He is really in top notch condition and his wrestling ability seems unlimited at times. Bruce Richardson, should come through, and Bill Daughaday certainly seems to be a winner. If Dick Thomas loses his match, it will only be because of lack of confidence. Jim Latson had a close match at 155 against Pete Illman last year and with Dick Thomas's rapid-fire aggressiveness, he is almost sure to fall...