Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are connoisseurs who go to hockey games just to exult over a weaving solo dash or delight in a well-coordinated scoring play, but rank-&-file hockey fans would still rather hear a player thud against the boards, or see a good fist fight...
JOHN PRCHLIK, king-pin of the 1944 Yale foreward wall, is a sixty-minute ball player as well as the Eli's heavy-weight wrestler. The six feet three inch right guard's blocks from his running guard position have received approval from Eli fans all fall...
Only injury of major consequence that has visited the Yale squad is the broken hand sustained by Vaudy Kirk, the regular Eli left-halfback, who is expected to be used only on defense today. His place will be filled by Art Fitzgerald, the former Notre Dame player who arrived at Yale in the middle of the 1945 season and established a modern record by scoring three touchdowns against Harvard a year...
...history, the chance at a Harvard or a Yale education has suddenly ceased to depend on the financial resources of one's father. Much has been made in the sports columns of the nation of the appearance for the first time on a Yale varsity eleven of a Negro player and of the number of men on both teams whose names are not Anglo-Saxon. Such an occurrence has a significance that makes any joke or tolerant smile on the subject seem jejeune and slightly sour. For the social flux which is going on in both schools and which...
...that wasn't all. Inside the field house, trainer Eddie Farrell, a Harvard institution himself and the team's most ardent supporter, installed a record-player in a corridor, and College songs invaded the dressing room and showers. Yale game cometh...