Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are opportunities for other teams which may have hopes of winning olive wreaths and oak trees but unfortunately not too bright ones. America's major sports--football, baseball and basketball--gain rather minor positions in Olympics. Football, as the U. S. plays it, is popular in no other nation and although there has been talk of sending an exhibition team, it is unlikely. An exhibition baseball team usually travels to the Olympic games and in 1948 there may be some other nations to play it. If there are and the executive committee decides to send one, the players would...
...started when a galaxy of eager veterans poured back into the Dramatic Club roster last fall, ready for action but not for what they called a "tightly-knit social organization." The older men, among them pre-war HD members, set up their own "veterans' workshop" producing unit, chose a play, and were promptly read out of the club for "insubordination" by the insulted hierarchy. Pulling into their own back-yard, the veterans decided to carry the ball alone...
They ran into a mud wall with the play they had chosen--Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon." The Dramatic Club didn't exactly tear down the goal-posts with its fig-leaved presentation of "Adam the Creator," either, but the competition hadn't really begun in those early days--the two groups even offered each other helpful hints from time to time. It wasn't until the heady aroma of "Saint Joan" began to fill the local columns and airwaves that the HD worries began...
Coach MacDonald ran his Varsity team through two hours of kicking drills and scrimmage yesterday afternoon in prep- aration for the West Point game which comes up tomorrow. The booters leave Cambridge this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and after spending the night at the Plains will play the Cadets at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow. Like the football team, the squad is scheduled to head back to Cambridge shortly after the game...
Winner of the loop title will get a 150-point boost towards the coveted Straus trophy now held by Leverett House and also a crack at the winner of the Yale intercollegiate competition come November. All other Houses in the league will play Eli colleges also, being paired off with a team having the same standing in the New Haven loop...