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Plus and minus signs are about equally distributed as the Varsity enters the belt-buckle stage of pre-season practice. Here are a few of them...
...Leahy had been crying quietly all summer. His Irish hadn't lost a game since 1945, and his record at Notre Dame was 41 victories, three defeats and four ties. But, as usual, the future looked black to Leahy. As his 72-man squad stepped briskly through its pre-season paces at South Bend last week, Leahy looked ahead to opening day and turned away with a groan. Said he: "September 25 is going to be a sad afternoon. I think Purdue will beat...
...Columbia team on September 26 and two looks at Cornell before Harvard plays them on October 2 and 9. During the summer, Valpey and aides will look at more opponents' movies, analyze Crimson spring practice films, and pick the 50 men who will be asked back to pre-season fall practice. Others are welcome, but must pay their...
Alberta was sure it would get all this back, and more. Pre-season bookings at the Banff, Jasper and Waterton Lakes chalets were heavy, the tourist camps were sprucing up. For the overflow, the Alberta Travel Bureau was lining up private homes, even vacant hospital beds. The province expected to top last year's record of 752,000 visitors and to reap a $20 million return. It was expecting but not encouraging 50,000 to rough it over the resort-shy Alaska Highway...
...said tennis coach Jack Barnaby at the start of the season; "we're hot," he reiterated last night. And he may be right. His charges have shattered the prognostications of all pre-season deposters, battering Navy, Army, Bowdoin, Wosleyan, and Amherst by substantial scores. They have sluffed off the stigma of last year's flasco season which found them bouncing around in the league cellar, unimpressive and untouted, and have forced Hub scribes to re-upholster their stock of Crimson tennis epithets with rubrics of enthusiasm and praise...