Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardling coach will spend part of his time investigating and making reports on New England high school players suggested as prospects by alumni, students, and coaches. Lamar's major functions will be supervision of motion pictures of past Crimson games and reports on prep school prospects...
Campus anthropologists like to divide Yalemen into "White Shoes," "Brown Shoes" and "Black Shoes." The White Shoes come from the proper families and the proper prep schools; their weekend dress, almost like a uniform, is a button-down shirt, striped tie and Brooks Bros, suit. The Black Shoes are apt to be on scholarship (one-third of all Yale students are), working their way through college. The Brown Shoes are somewhere in between...
Yale follows a similar program, but Bob Kupath takes his swimming team to a Massachusetts prep school for an exhibition meet, and Bob Hall takes Yale movies along when he drops in at Connecticut schoolboy team banquets. Recently Harvard has not felt itself above this sort of salesmanship. The number of coaches' tours is up and it is now quite common to join Yale and the others at the school boy banquets; and the New York Harvard Club this year brought 20 athletes to Cambridge to tour around the College...
...Derby. But a lot of the crowd's wiser money (4-1) believed in Burch and Bold for three good reasons: 1) Jockey Eddie Arcaro; 2) the sound hunch that Bold could have had a better ride when he lost to Alerted by a neck in the Preakness Prep earlier in the week; and 3) the fact that Bold had never run a bad race (three firsts and two seconds in five starts). As it turned out, the smart money had the situation cased just right...
After taking a 4 to to 0 lead, the Crimson allowed the prep-schoolers to score three times. From then on the Yardlings scored of will, always keeping a goal or two ahead of Dummer...