Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Donald C. Watson memorial rink--named after John Watson's late brother, an ex-Crimson football player-- will solve these problems. Its completion will mark the conclusion of over four years of effort which began in 1950, when ex-hockey coach John P. Chase donated the initial $1000. The drive reached partial fruition last winter when the outdoor rink was built...
...season's brightest star is César Girón, a 20-year-old Venezuelan from an old Caracas bullfighting family. A promising baseball player in high school, Girón faced his first bull when, at 15, he jumped into the Caracas bull ring during a fight and gave the fans a laugh and a thrill. Last week, in the famed old bull ring of Salamanca, Girón got the highest honors a delirious crowd could bestow...
...wildest summer. I came back first class with a lady tennis player from Santa Barbara just to study the decadent bourgeoisie. I engaged in a Dada manifestation and helped put on a Stravinski ballet. I interviewed Abd-el-Krim in Morocco and wrote a play called Shall Be the Human Race but there's nothing worth seeing in Europe except the Ballet Russe and the révolution mondiale...
MacDonald's classmate, right fielder Donald H. Butters '55 of Natick, received the Wingate Memorial Cup as the best all around player on the squad. And the Wendell Bat went to William J. Cleary, Jr. '56 of Winthrop House and Cambridge; Cleary gained the annual prize for having the highest agregate point total for runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, sacrifices, and safe arrivals at first...
...Warner once explained that Ernie Nevers was a greater player than Thorpe because Nevers never stopped trying-rain or shine. Pop probably meant what he said, but he loved Thorpe because the old Indian shared his own uncomplicated love for football. Until the day he died, in Palo Alto last week, at 83, Pop never forgot Thorpe's excuse for failing to break up an opponent's pass: "It looked so pretty." Pop understood...