Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, neither ideology nor double-talk was involved in Low's last successful attempt to get a reentry visa for Communist-controlled Rumania. Rumanian Premier Petru Groza would not see him and so, knowing that Groza fancied himself a tennis player second to no one, Low let it be known that back in the States he himself had been quite a tennist. Around midnight three nights later his telephone rang: the Premier would like to play; his car would be around at 6 o'clock in the morning...
...break came with 43 seconds to play: a free throw for the Dons. It looped through. The Dons froze the ball, iced the 1949 National Invitation Championship, 48-47. Most valuable player of the tournament (picked by N.I.T. judges): San Francisco's Lofgran...
...fluid game, resembling hockey played on a field 110 yards long and 60 to 70 yards wide. The object of the game, according to the august words of the Official Rules, is "to score by causing the ball to enter the opponent's goal." For this purpose the lacrosse player is given a crosse made of four to six feet of wood topped by a rawhide net in which the ball is caught and carried around the field. The ball can be kicked but not touched by the hands...
...goalie, who stands in front of the six-by-six hole which is the goalmouth, but ventures forth to become an offensive player when his team has the ball...
Rugger demands a different approach and Coach Ed Callahan, the Harvard University Rugby Football Club's mentor and former Crimson player, has been pretty happy lately at the way his players have adapted themselves to the game...