Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standouts for the Puritans were Jim Faust and Dave Loring, who between them accounted for the majority of the Winthrop tallies. Faust was a particular aid to the Puritan cause with his accurate long shots...
Thus begins, says Miss Mead, the typical American race for success. Success, not class, she insists, is the American standard of a man's value, rooted deeply in the Puritan belief that toil and struggle are the proper works of man. "In his parents' every gesture, the child learns that although they want to love him very much . . . they are not quite sure that he will deserve it, that when they check him up against the baby book and the neighbors' baby, he will come out A-1 and so worthy of complete, blind love...
Dick Segnitz sparked the Puritan tally when he broke loose early in the second stanza around the midfield stripe, and traveled all the way to the five-yard line before he was pulled down. Three plays later, the only score of the game was pushed across...
Rocking back and forth across the 50 yard stripe, the Puritan-Funster clash was doomed to a scoreless tie from the first. If either team showed any superiority it was Winthrop, which made two scoring threats...
Winthrop reached the 20 in the last period on its passing attack, but could not push the ball further. Absent from the Puritan lineup was Gershon Ross, star back, who is out with a sprained ankle for the rest of the season, but Ralph Davenport made a fine showing at the bucking back spot. Ken Fremont-Smith at tackle and Fairfield Goodale at guard sparked the Winthrop line in a contest where both forward walls were very strong...