Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ponderous, prolix debater, with an edgy temper and a taste for snappy double-breasted suits, Scott Lucas likes to describe himself as just another Midwestern farm boy. He is also a smalltown lawyer (in Havana, Ill.; pop. 3,999), an ex-professional baseball player (in the Three-Eye League), a onetime national judge advocate of the American Legion...
Oxford, which had issued a challenge to play the best Harvard intramural basketball team, was "fast-breaked off the floor," as one player put it. The Bellboys, paced by Goldie Goldsmith (26 points), John Altrocchi (24), and Mike Post (17), were continually getting behind the Oxford defenses with hard, accurate passes, and scoring on simple shots...
Holy Cross's Bill Brill and 6 ft., 6 in. Charlie Hammill were the best ball handlers and tallied up 14 points each. Fred Difenbach, another top player, made two baskets...
...system" goes roughly like this: a player in a major sport gets his big "H" even if he sees only five seconds of action against Yale--but an athlete in a minor sport, no matter how many records he may smash, has to be content with a small letter. And if a player in any sport misses his Yale game, whatever the reason, he doesn't get a letter...
There is machinery which can set straight any injustice, but it's so complicated that only most glaring examples are rectified. A standout player who is unable to play Yale can get his letter by the grace of several committee okays; but worthy players who aren't standouts are generally regarded as tough luck cases. The bureaucratic gears can't be oiled up for every unfortunate athlete, and there's no way for a neglected player to beat the "H" out of them...