Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardlings had one of their most successful weekends as three squads all won easily over prep school teams...
Bill Brooks's Crimson freshman swimming team faces one of the East's top two prep school squads in the IAB pool at 3:00 p.m. Exeter beat Dartmouth's freshmen, who in turn defeated Andover, as did the Crimson. Exeter's greatest strength is in the backstroke and the sprints...
...second consecutive weekend, all freshman teams which saw action captured their meets. Two of them, basketball and hockey, defeated college freshmen, while the others, squash and swimming, won over prep school squads...
...five Crimson players all had at least two years of prep-school experience. Number one man, Charlle Hamm, was captain of his prep-school varsity last year and is now one of the top players in the University. He has tremendous power off both sides, knows how to make all the shots, and uses his head while on the court. Varsity coach Jack Barnaby said that Hamm is "definitely mid-varsity callber...
Shelby is 18, a volunteer just out of a Virginia military prep school, and he arrives in England, assigned to an evacuation hospital, the most foul and fouled-up outfit in the U.S. Army. He is young, brave, idealistic, but his comrades beat all that out of him until one day, in France, he goes AWOL to fight with a rifle at the front. Thereupon he discovers he is not a courageous man. Instead of accepting this as a not unusual fact, young Shelby is full of shame. Before long, he is stealing penicillin to pay a tart...