Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nosed Wallace Sterling, 42, is an ex-football player himself (at the University of Toronto), who also likes to raise delphiniums. The son of an Ontario minister, he taught history and coached football at Saskatchewan's Regina College, then moved to the U.S. in 1932. While earning a Ph.D. at Stanford, he became a history instructor at CalTech. Most Californians know him best as a weekly radio news commentator (for Day & Night water heaters). Last spring he became director of the famed Huntington Library and Art Gallery at San Marino, Calif...
...President popped into the almost-deserted press lounge, sneaked up behind a pool player, asked suddenly: "Who's behind the eight-ball?" The player turned around in annoyance, stifled a curse just in time as he recognized the man in the tan fishing cap and sunglasses. "Go ahead with your game," grinned the President. Next week Washington's ex-Governor Mon Wallgren would be arriving, Harry Truman promised, "and I'm going to bring him over and have him show you fellows how to play...
...couldn't name any particularly outstanding Harvard player if I had to," Yale's Coach Herman Hickman said at the press conference after Saturday's game, "they're a team." He was right...
...Coach Elmer Madar came here this fall after a year of professional football with the Baltimore Colts. Here's his formula for a good end: "He has to be a combination player, a back and a lineman at the same time. He should be agile, swift, and able to adjust to the various situations that come up. On defense, he should be rugged and rough, on offense smooth and shifty. In other words, he should be well-rounded...
...goal is Loring Batchelder, a former Andover player, one of the best net minders in the Ivy League this year. He still has one more year to play...