Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone on the squad has been encouraged to practice the art, and it is pointed out that its cultivation vastly increases the value of an individual player. Almost all of the kickers prefer to place rather than drop kick. Coach Harlow says that he has no preference what-soever, but that almost all players come from prep and high schools trained in the former...
Potential chess players of the class of '40 who aspire to a position on the Freshman chess team will be given the opportunity of pitting their ingenuity against the resourcefulness of seasoned chess player Sidney S. Coggan at 7.15 o'clock this evening in the Upper Common Room of the Union...
Among other Varsity men, whose successful development has resulted largely from Carr's spotting their innate ability early and working to bring it out, are halfback Bob Scott and right outside Don Sleeper, both Juniors, and halfback Austin Scott, a Senior and former Junior Varsity player...
Like Gehrig, Pitcher Hubbell was last week voted the most valuable player in his league. First time he won this distinction was in 1933, when his earned run average - best index to a pitcher's ability - was 1.66 per game, lowest in the league. The pitching equivalent of Gehrig's four-home-run feat is a no-hit, no-run game. Hubbell achieved the only such game played in the major leagues in 1929. Left-handed pitchers, according to all baseball legend, lack control both on and off the diamond. Hubbell's secret is that he possesses...
...Argentina, where cattle raising is the national industry, polo is the national sport. The majority of the game's good players are not socialites as they are in the U. S., but ganchos (cowboys). Manuel Andrada, the Babe Ruth of Argentina, is a gaucho who has been playing high-goal polo for 30 years. Gazzotti, South America's No. 1 player, is a middle-class businessman. Luis Duggan and Roberto Cavanagh are third-generation, European-schooled sons of rich Irish-Argentinian ranching families. Cavanagh, at 20, is currently considered the most promising poloist in the world...