Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...managing editor under which several of us ran was the mighty Roy Bukley '02, in later life reduced to the rank of a mere United States Senator. Our group included Franklin D. Roosevelt who was our first president and who then displayed his great literary prowess. Frank lived on the college "gold coast" but even then was inclined towards politics and steered the Crime behind causes such as better fire protection in the yard dormitories, where we had then to rely on old rope fire escapes...
Hank Rate, Buddy Lemay, and Hank Toepke were blocking specialists, but tackle Bob Stargel showed ball-carrying prowess, too. Dick Duback was used on defense exclusively--at safety man and halfback; he was noted chiefly for his ability to catch and hold punts, despite the proximity of hurtling enemy ends...
Harvard exhibited some aerial prowess of its own against the Yale reserves. Hardy Cox, Clasby's substitute, completed seven out of nine passes for 142 yards, setting up Culver's final plunge for the score...
...home in the Garden, nonetheless was superbly mounted on his big chestnut Olympic horse, Ali Baba. Steinkraus was teamed up with an amazingly old (19) brown gelding named Democrat, a retired cavalry horse from the old Army Remount Service at Fort Riley, Kans. and a jumper of legendary prowess at many another U.S. horse show...
Wingback John Ederer, whose passing gives the Crimson a valuable surprise weapon, spent considerable time yesterday sharpening his aerial prowess. Meanwhile, the defensive unit, spearheaded by junior linebackers Bob Hardy and Ronnie Messer, got its last look at simulated Princeton plays...