Word: player
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hockey team, which finished sixth in the 3-1 League and third in the Quadrangular League in 1939, has at least two outstanding Sophomores. The first is Bill MacCoy, who never played before he arrived at Princeton but who is going to be a great player before he is through, in the opinion of his coach, Dick Vaughan. The other is Dan Stuckey, from Exeter, former Freshman captain. MacCopy is a defense man and Stuckey is a center...
Harvard VarsityCaptain Kim Canavarro in the number one position is a threat to any player out of four matches to date and is greatly improved. But Canavarro gets plenty of competition right on the squad from Jim Rousmaniere, who is rapidly rounding into shape despite a late start. Rousmaniers devoted a lot of time to soccer this fall, and it has taken him a longer time than usual to whip into form...
...Albie Myers, a small forward, Coach Mooney believes he has one of the outstanding shots and competitors in the circuit. "If Albie were three or four inches taller, he'd be the best player in the League," says Mooney, "but even at his height (five feet eight inches) he's a great ball player...
...Though Harmon was the spectators' favorite, a nationwide poll of sportswriters voted Iowa's little Nile Clarke Kinnick the No. 1 player of the year. Grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, son of a onetime quarterback at Iowa State, and catcher for famed Bob Feller on a schoolboy baseball team in his hometown of Adel, Iowa, Halfback Kinnick, in an age when most footballers play only 30 minutes of a game, played the full 60 minutes in six tough games. His passing, punting, blocking, running sparked Iowa to win six of its eight games...
...heard like the electrical clarity of the least voice in Toscanini 's orchestra, or the overwhelming majesty of its full song. How or why he obtains, in the pursuit of his ideal of perfection, the almost terrible beauty of tone that he draws from every single player is the ultimate mystery and miracle that nobody can solve and nobody can duplicate." Lawrence Oilman: "In later years what we know to be the truth about him will not be believed. It will survive as a legend and a myth, a fable scarcely conceivable as fact. ... He ceases to be merely...