Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Those prep school boys were slightly obnoxious though. They were up here for some hockey tournament, and one night they would be strutting around the lobby with fierce looks, mumbling, "Beat somebody or other." And the next night they did everything but bash their heads against the wall and kick over chairs because they had lost a game to "a bunch of ringers." Two or three leered up to Vag and asked where they could get a drink in this joint, and he told them, because it meant they would go to bed sooner...
Although equipped with five former leading prep school and high school captains, the team boasts no outstanding stars and is hardly expected to compare with its talented predecessors of recent years. Coach White is rightly pessimistic...
Breaststroke is expected be the team's strong point, with the list headed by Sigo Falk and Bob Jaffe. Falk, former Exeter captain, captured the 100-yard breaststroke at the All-American Prep School Meet, setting a new meet record of 1:01.. Jaffe has been pushing Falk closely in practice...
While at Hotchkiss he turned out undefeated football and swimming teams, losing only one dual swimming meet to Williston Academy last year. At the prep school he emphasized calisthenics as taught him by his father and introduced a special body-building course for students...
...well. Our candidates are usually selected with little regard to their activities here. We chose from a certain type and background and there just aren't very many Jewish students in that group to begin with." Echoes another club member, "To some extent we let the headmasters at certain prep schools do the screening...