Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During Saturday's Harvard-Williams lacrosse game, with the taunts, directed at the Crimson bench becoming more derisive in direct proportion to the number of beers consumed in the home stands, a varsity player turned around and addressed the assembled boys and girls: "Amazing what eight years of prep school can do for a guy," he commented...
...year-old tuned up for the Kentucky Derby is a delicate matter of training and timing. Some trainers hold that the proper pitch is achieved by winter racing in Florida or California; others favor a slower tempo, try to bring the horse to quick Derby peak in the April prep races. Last week Trainer Syl Veitch, who handles horses for C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney, made the gradual approach look impressive...
Since the prep school crews have no weight limit, Tabor and Browne and Nichols will hold a probable weight advantage of 15 pounds per man. Haines was unwilling to make any predictions on the outcome of the race, however, having seen neither crew...
What's Ham? Affable, broad-shouldered George Boyce, 52, had begun his teaching career in Eastern prep schools (St. Paul's, the Lake Placid School, the Chestnut Hill Academy). He had been working with Navajos for more than nine years. At Brigham City he lost no time getting the wheels turning. Within six months, with a $3,700,000 appropriation, he had remodeled every room in the hospital, built a gymnasium and seven other new buildings, organized a staff of 130. By January, George Boyce was ready for his first pupils at Intermountain Indian School...
Trainer Harry Daniels had shipped along some California hay to mix with the Kentucky brand, so that the chestnut colt would feel as much at home as possible. Veteran Jockey Johnny Longden had flown in from the West Coast to ride him in the seven-furlong prep race. The competition included Tulsa Oilman Tom Gray's Oil Capitol-Kentucky Derby favorite (5-2) and one of the best of the three-year-old crop by anybody's standards...