Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bert Haines, whose Freshman boat lines up against Yale and Princeton in the Goldthwaite Cup series this Saturday. Confident because of the open water which separated them from M. I. T. last Saturday, the 150's have no measure of their opponents' strength, as they have raced no common rival...
...most of the industry were piled up all the combustible elements for a fiery outburst. Less than half the nation's 200,000 military aircraft workers have been organized. As rival A.F. of L., C.I.O., and independents moved in, started membership drives, jurisdictional strikes set off sparks. Most inflammable spot this week was at Boeing Aircraft Co., in Seattle, Wash. There an A.F. of L. union, scabby with Communism, had expelled a leftist group, who resentfully switched their affiliations to C.I.O. Whether C.I.O. would take them in, make them the spearhead of a drive on Boeing, remained...
Ineligible to run the Braves, Turfman Adams forthwith got hardy Bob Quinn, onetime owner of the rival Boston Red Sox, to take charge of the club (renamed the Bees) until a suitable buyer could be found. But customers for a big-league ball club do not grow on trees...
Before long, Promoter Simms, by radio appeals and cross-country combing, had rounded up a squad of players good enough to beat many a rival second-class team. But press agentry, more than prowess, put St. Mary's on the map. Coach Simms sent out elaborate brochures telling sportswriters about the "most colorful college football team" in the U.S. He succeeded in getting games with reputable colleges from coast to coast and border to border, took his players on their crisscross-country tours in a $27,000 bus, "the biggest bus in the world...
Ranking the squad would be difficult, but Coach Dick Dorson '37 has finally selected six players who have a slight advantage over the others. Ted Cohn, runner-up in last fall's Freshman tournament, is a very steady player. His closest rival, Dick Soriein, is a fast, aggressive player. Tall, six feet four inch Hugh Hyde has the height and reach for a good net man and is one of the best doubles men on the team. Former hockey star Marc Becbe has the most powerful serve of the group, Phil Scanlon wields a clever racquet all over the court...