Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain John Dorman is out of the fray with an impending appendectomy. Leon Maheimer, dependable outside right and money player, is disabled by a dislocated collarbone sustained in practice on Thursday. In the places of these injured men, Robert W. Scott, Jr. '38 makes his first start of the season at halfback, while Sydney T. Dawson, Jr. '26, regular substitute for Manheimer, takes up his burden on the forward line...
...same time the head coach announced that D. H. MacIntosh 1L would assist him and take over the second Freshman. MacIntosh, a former football and basketball player at Notre Dame, will report Monday...
...imported singers are so sure of their Wagner that they needed little rehearsing. But the San Franciscans who sing the smaller roles have been drilled tirelessly all autumn. More difficult still has been the task of training an orchestra which has never before played the Ring. Five players had to be brought on from Manhattan, four to play the special Wagner tuben, one the drums. To start the spadework a month ago, Conductor Artur Bodanzky sent two of his assistants from the Metropolitan Opera. For the past fortnight he has been on the job in person, rehearsing as much...
When Leopold Stokowski flicked his baton in Philadelphia 20 years ago, he had no player more responsive than a handsome blond Dutchman who sat hugging his cello between his knees. Hans Kindler was back in Philadelphia last week, this time as a guest on Stokowski's podium, waving his own commanding stick. He had returned to his oldtime colleagues as an experienced, full-fledged conductor. But he had done more than achieve a conductor's technique. Despite Depression he had succeeded in planting an orchestra in Washington, D. C., making it grow and flower...
...been accustomed to idling on the practice field, hesitating a brief second before plunging through the line, or forgetting he is a cog in a machine needs more than six weeks in which to become an A-1 player. Until he has learned new habits, he is of little assistance in rendering effective even the best system in the world. This is the problem on Soldier's Field today...