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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jack McKenna's Dunster team features a heavy line with center Ed Cohen and a pair of 240 pound tackles. Pete Hill and Ed Blodnick. Eliot coach Bill Welch is starting last year's All League quarterback Charles Cabot. His team is reinforced with good sophomores. Odds favor Eliot and Winthrop, but both Adams and Dunster think that the new lineup may chance this year's results...
...editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed their suspicions that the chunk was solid metallic uranium, which does not occur in nature...
...until 4 in the morning, cutting and welding a nine-foot, piece of six-inch oil-well casing into a North Pole. As a final touch, a welder took his torch and wrote on the steel: "North Pole by Stan." Next day, Stan and his friends lugged the 300-pound pole over to a sign company, got it enameled with gleaming red and white spirals. The ball was painted blue...
After the winter season, Lee nursed the Knee along last spring to win the National A.A.U. 121-pound class. He won three of his four matches in Japan...
...front of all this offensive talent, Anderson has had no trouble making up a powerful, experienced line. Every starter is a letterman with the exception of 200-pound sophomore tackle Mike Cooney, a strongman who teams perfectly with the other tackle, "Jack the Giant" Feltch, a frail 230-pounder. Behind these, the Crusaders have three letter-winners, including such familiar and effective operators as Vic Rimkus and Tony Staryzinski...