Word: preseason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University ski team will compete in the Franconia Ski Club's annual preseason cross country and giant slalom races on Cannon Mountain tomorrow and Sunday. These will be the first ski competitions in the East this winter...
...Haven, Conn., Dec.6-Yale's preseason concern with the problem of key men for defense in hockey was a thing of the past today with the results of the Eli's opener against Northeastern now on the record books...
...Crimson should be the favorite, both on the basis of preseason ratings and comparative scores so far in the season. Wesleyan shut out both teams 2 to 0, but the Crimson edged Williams 3 to 2, while Brown lost, 4 to 2. Brown's third loss was to Yale...
...their games, 14 Southeastern Conference titles, three N.C.A.A. championships, one National Invitation Tournament, one Olympic title. Unhappily, some of the Olympians were caught taking bribes (TIME, May 12, 1952), and the N.C.A.A. suspended Kentucky all last season. Last week Kentucky came back with a bang. In a preseason speech, Rupp had wisecracked that his idle champions were the nation's only "undefeated" team last season. "Since we have this wonderful record to live up to, I'm just going to turn my boys loose and let them live up to it." Against Temple University's first-class...
Perfectionist Rupp thought his boys did "right well in their debut," then had a sudden coachly afterthought: "We didn't play nearly as well as we are capable." How good is Rupp's team? In preseason polls, U.S. basketball coaches ranked Kentucky No. 2, after Indiana, last season's N.C.A.A. champion. Main reasons for the high ranking: 1) Coach Rupp himself, 2) Spring-legged Cliff Hagan of Owensboro, Ky., one of the shortest major college (6 ft. 4 in.) centers and one of the game's most prolific scorers (21.6 points average), and 3) Co-Captain...