Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With graduate students bolstering the team led by Hayden Channing, Harvard has experienced players in Williams, a former Oxford player, Gephard, last year's Princeton captain, Cocking of Stanford and Desmond of Southern California...
...move and pushed the ball into the unsuspecting arms of a teammate. Before the latter had taken two steps, and before he could get ahead of him, he shouted, "Pass it back, pass it back," in an officious tone that intimated the lack of team spirit on his fellow player's part...
...were the original U. S. badminton pioneers in 1878. Unlike England's "Grand Old Man" of badminton, Sir George Thomas, whose achievement of winning 78 national badminton titles in the British Isles from 1903 to 1928 is rivaled only by his position as England's best chess player, they did not contribute much to the game's later triumph. Badminton's current status on the U. S. scene is largely a tribute to the power of the cinema...
Produced by onetime Comedian Raymond Griffith, directed by Norman Taurog. Fifty Roads to Town's principal claim to a permanent niche in cinema history is that it includes Hollywood's first exposition of "the match game"-in which each player holds three or less matches in his right hand and all players guess at the total held. Good shot: Peter, Millicent and the trapper playing to see who sleeps in the cabin's only bed. Son of a Kenosha, Wis. saloon keeper, Don Ameche attended Columbia (Iowa), Marquette, Georgetown and Wisconsin Universities in quick succession...
George Lowman was the only singles player to win all three matches. Hubert Hauck, playing at the No. 1 position, lost to his North Carolina opponent, but won his next two matches in straight sets. These two teamed as the No. 1 doubles combination and dropped only two games in their match against Duke and only four against Navy...