Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoot baskets. He was as far from the old "Pudge" Heffelfinger mold in Yale athletes as was tiny footballer Albie Booth. For one thing, he was apt to be shy in a crowd; for another, what he really wanted to be was a musician. A competent piano and accordion player already, he hopes "to pick up some day in the musical comedy composing field where Cole Porter and Irving Berlin leave off." But with his long fingers Tony Lavelli could flick basketballs through hoops better than anybody in the collegiate game...
Coach Lloyd Harper was hardly happy about the approaching tussle with the New Haven boys at yesterday's practise session. Harper has only the limited services of his most consistant scorer and most effective defensive player, Jerry Murphy...
...wrestler typifies the athlete just as much as a football player. In many cases, an outstanding wrestler's size keeps him from playing football, but he still goes through all the rigors of conditioning that the football player does, and more. What the Athletic Committee must decide next month, then, is whether major H's are to be awarded only to popular heroes or to athletes. Its decision should be obvious. There is no reason why wrestling should be minimized at Harvard...
Just as in the first Boston University game, the expectedly tough game didn't fully materialize. Yet the Crimson's playing, in Coach Stan Priddy's eyes, showed considerable improvement over Saturday's performance in the second BU game. Goalie Ted Cook was the game's standout player, recording 30 saves while tending the goal for the entire three periods...
Every varsity player won at least one bout. Final scores were 6 to 3 in the foil, 5 to 4 in the epee, and 3 to 6 in the saber...