Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshman and Jayvee nines were both unable to take the field for their scheduled contests Saturday as a result of wet grounds. The Yardling game with New Prep will be played off Friday at Soldiers Field...
With the weather offering stiffer competition than the opposition of Lawrence Academy could muster, the Yardling nine yesterday managed to squeeze in the legal ball game limit and come out on top, 6 to 2. Today at 3 o'clock they face New Prep on Soldiers Field, while the Jayvees meet the Tufts seconds...
Heavy travelling expenses, he pointed out, shackled the lightweight gridders to local goal posts, and unfortunately, nearby schools like B. C. and Tufts could not support additional squads. Competition with prep school varsities was abandoned after a trial, according to Bingham, simply because "A lot of those boys are bigger and heavier than our 150-pounders...
...Governor of Massachusetts, ex-U.S. Congressman, possessor of the Order of St. Sophia (Serbia), the Medal of Gratitude (France), and the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), let it out that he had added yet another spray of laurel to his fillet. Dartmouth College and Dean Academy prep school, said the Mayor (still at large pending his appeal from a mail-fraud conviction), had asked him for recordings of his speeches, for the instruction of students in oratory...
...line all season, won an honorable mention for All-American in 1944 but was in Japan as an ensign for the 1945 campaign. Last fall he played more minutes than any other man on the Crimson squad. He played two years of high school football for Poly Prep in Brooklyn before coming to Cambridge with the Navy V-12 unit. He was mentioned on several all-city teams during his high school gridiron career...