Word: pond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second game for the 1932 aggregation, which defeated Arlington High last Wednesday by 2 to 0, on the same day that Belmont Hill lost to the University Seconds by a 3 to 2 score. HARVARD 1932 BELMONT HILL Crosby, l.w r.w., Bacon Wood, c. c., Baxter Stubbs, r.w. l.w., Pond Cunningham, l.d. r.d., Bartol Palmer, r.d. l.d., Kimball Draper, g. g., Tweedy
...players seemed to receive new vigor in the third period, for S. A. Pond and A. B. Bacon each scored a goal for Arlington. The score still stood 2 to 2 with only three minutes to play, when J. P. Davis '30, took the puck in the middle of the rink and carried it through the whole opposing team for a winning goal...
...that a great city is near. Pedestrianism is fast becoming impossible. If the wary walker manages to elude the traffic that girdles the Yard, he takes his life in his hands when he strolls by the Charles. Let him walk in the Fenway, in Jamaica., or to the pond near Belmont, he is always aware that the city is about him. Only a little part of Cambridge now remains unspoilt. I recall looking out of my window at Winthrop Hall one midwinter morning to find the ground under a foot or two of snow, the trees grey with frost...
Sticks and stones were pressed into use to mark the goals, and somebody's stray overcoat was the best apology for a net that could be found. Wild shooting sent the pucks into orchards and meadows and deep tangled wildwoods beyond the confines of the pond rink and no sandlot baseball game was ever more defendant on the finding of the only ball in the party than was the Harvard hockey team on the luck of the seekers after lost pucks...
Like swimmers stealing a dip in a wayside brook the skaters discarded their shoes and superfluous clothing at the side of the pond. Spectators, including small boys and ladies with mischievous and predatory instincts, watched the practice, and occasionally carried off souvenirs in the form of a shoe or two. Sometimes the home trek for the Crimson sextet was a walk on skates for a couple of uncomfortable miles...