Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing on fast unfamiliar courts, Coach Jack Barnaby's squad won nine games out of twenty. Captain Jim McKittrick again swept his games...
...nightcap at the Blockhouse, Leverett's well-organized squad handily whipped an Eliot group that had all the coordination of a nine-months-old elephant. The game resolved into a struggle between the tall men of the teams, Dave Belcher of the Bunnies and Bob Crichton of Eliot. Between them they monopolized the backboards; Belcher scored 12 points and Crichton got 18. Leverett led all the way, showing superiority in shooting, particularly the sets of Jim Ross (8 points), passing, speed, and particularly in teamwork. It was Eliot's first loss, to three wins, and Leverett's first...
Whether Ben had found a new trick or whether he had merely shifted his grip a little, nobody really knew. But he got off on the 1948 winter circuit at Riviera with a sparkling 275 (nine strokes under par) to win the Los Angeles Open and set a new course record. At St. Louis in May, he gave Mike Turnesa one of the worst drubbings (7 and 6) of Mike's career in the final of the P.G.A. championship. Last June at Riviera, where he got the big one -the U.S. Open-he chipped five off the old tournament...
Twice in two years, Big Nine teams had invaded the Rose Bowl and made the Pacific Coast champions look like second-raters. Last week, a Big Nine team won again, but not until Northwestern Halfback Ed Tunnicliff broke loose for a 43-yard run in the last minutes of play. Final score: Northwestern 20, California 14. Some scores in other bowls (16 in all, which did a more than $2,000,000 business before some 600,000 fans...
...Smith led the Crimson to the halftime climax with eight points. His work on offense coupled with Chip Gannon and Walt McCurdy on defense enabled Harvard to snatch a nine point lead before the denouement came later...