Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a member of the Junior Eight, and has been the highest ranking athlete in college each of the last two years. He has won his letter in Hockey, Baseball, and Tennis, as well as in Football, and he is the ranking tennis player in New England. He was President of his Class in his Freshman year, the Junior in charge of Freshman affairs last year, and this year is President of the Student Council...
...freshman football team and captain of the 1933 first-year basketball five he began his successful carcer in these sports at Harvard. He received a major "II" award as an end on the University football squad of 1930. Last winter he won a minor letter as a regular player on the Harvard basketball team, and will probably hold a position on this year's quintet. The new football captain was elected vice-president of his class...
...left open for Harvard a final one-point margin of victory. Continuing, Coach Casey said, "The new captain played especially well against Army, showing his speed in following up kicks and receiving passes and in his offensive game, although opposed by John Price, an unusually fast and heavy player. I was also very much pleased by his work in the Yale game. He is good on offense and defense, tackling and catching passes, and blocks as efficiently as a much heavier man, and has a fine knowledge of the game...
...White House at 7 a.m." was the title of a magazine article in the New York Times last week in which "Hoover-ball" and its players were described. The information was supplied by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, a regular "Hoover-baller." For the first time it was revealed that Hoover-ball is a game, specially invented, played with a special lightweight medicine ball (6 lb.) over a high net on tennis courts. Four such courts are marked out on the White House lawn, moved frequently to keep from wearing out the grass. Excerpts: "When the setup is just what...
...instead was a ridiculous landslide in which Yale ran up the biggest score in Big Three history, 51 to 14. Yale's small Captain Albie Booth, ill with pleurisy, listened to the game over a radio, wondered later whether, as Coach Stevens was quoted as saying, "Every Yale player felt that he was playing for Albie Booth. . . . 'Another touchdown for Albie' was the word passed along...