Word: prop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With '12 of Coach "Moe" Berg's Yardlings seeing action on the Indoor Athletic Building floor, the Freshman hoop squad trounced a game but inexperienced Newman Prop quintet, 79 to 48, Saturday night...
...suitable for stowing away various dead bodies and homicidal instruments, and this necessitated a purchase. But the carpentry skill of the property men enables the company to get around most of the many problems of this sort less expensively. To illustrate this point Mr. Trask indicated in the crowded prop room an ugly, box-like structure constructed of mattresses and a few sticks of wood which he said could be made to resemble nearly any couch or sofa called for merely by the skillful draping over it of a slip cover...
...Newman five, which in spite of some spectacular shooting from far out in the court early in the game, showed its lack of practice in failing to produce integrated teamwork when playing close to the hoop. Having once conceded a lead to the Crimson in the first quarter, the prop schoolers were never able to catch...
Second, and from a more practical standpoint, good hockey teams are built by skating, not coaching. This is demonstrated, assuming all men to be created equal, by the consistant superiority of northerly prop schools and colleges and the number of Canadians in professional ranks. The Varsity could profit from a large number of undergraduates skating regularly from their Freshman year...
...explained that while the prop school appears on the regular schedule, it would make no difference since two months will elapse between encounters...