Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman play Andover away today on the schools new outdoor rink. The lineup: HARVARD BELMONT HILL Driscoll g Devine Coolidge rd Ferguson Patton ld Perry Horween rw Riley Colt c Cleary Wood lw Casner
Captain Norm Wood racked up six goals to spark the '54 hockey team in overwhelming St. Mark's 19 to 1 in the Arena yesterday. Jim Colt followed with four tallies, while Tony Patton counted with three. Dick Allen made the only score for the visitors early in the first period...
...tankmen, who had hemmed & hawed awkwardly while the Russian T-34s made trouble for the lightweight U.S. Chaffees in the first days of Korea, had other reasons to speak up in a clear voice. Their medium Pattons had proved an easy winner over the Russian T-34 in Korea (although they had yet to meet Russia's newest and most formidable). In one classic encounter, 16 Pattons had knocked out 16 T-34s with only minor damage to four Pattons. In another, one Patton had destroyed a T-34 in a gun duel at a mile's range...
...Pattons were sounding just as good on the defensive. The Pentagon's favorite tank hero was the sergeant who commanded a Patton which withstood 17 hits by enemy shells. Said he: "I like to hear them bounce off." That was a little tall, even for a tank sergeant, but the tankers were obviously feeling better about their new weapons...
Reginald N. "Woodpecker" Wood of Marblehead, Mass. was elected Captain prior to the Melrose scrimmage. Wood, who led St. Mark's 1949 hockey team, played freshman soccer last fall. HARVARD BROWN Marshall g Hart Patton ld Groggin Coolidge rd Pettit Wood lw Farrell Clasby c Lawrence Horween rw Vietze