Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Estes, who started last Sunday with just an idea and the ability to knock on doors found 34 men who wanted to play in the intramural league but could not do so because they lived in dormitories. He wants to add 20 more players to the squad to insure the strongest team in the league. With the first game October 8 the "Outhouses" have talent ranging from a 248 pound six-foot-three linesman to several light, but fleet backs...
During the scrimmage, the Freshmen remained constantly on the defensive, and for the second straight day provided a target for the offensive plays of their seniors. While the Varsity made notable gains with abandon, the Yardlings rallied on more than one occasion to stop them cold and attracted favorable attention by their spirited play...
After the contact work ended, Coach Harlow commended Roche and diminutive Paul Lazzaro for outstanding play in the backfield, and John Fiorentino...
...production. And it is an altogether delightful one: it has been paced so as to keep the audience laughing most of the time, and in this Evans, has been supremely successful. The dream scene in which the original Don Juan appears and brings out the philosophical content of the play in a long discussion with the Devil, the Commendatore, and Donna Ana, has been cut. In the light of the Evans interpretation of the play, that is all that can be done. The scene is only occasionally funny and hardly dramatic...
Nevertheless, this constant attempt to smooth away a rough, wholesome play cannot be completely successful. Where the treatment of "Earnest" was natural and right, in "Man and Superman" it is artificial, and when the power of Shaw's ideas does break through, both the cast and the audience are left both embarrassed and helpless. But after a painful farewell to George Bernard Shaw, one can trot down to the Shubert and be amused...