Word: rugger
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...beds for the benefit of the approaching overseers, preceded, of course, by little girls springing out of bed. The beautiful soprano voices of the choir drop into a rearing bass at the appropriate time. Appearances are dropped in a climatic melee featuring the girls' lacrosse team against the courageous rugger team...
...before Harvard decided to try cricket again after a lapse of 43 years, Oxford and Cambridge Universities crossed paths for the first time in, of all things, a game of American softball. The "fixture," as Cambridge's Varsity Newspaper chose to call the contest, was staged at Grange Field Rugger Ground and it was largely the work of David E. McGiffert '49 which made the game possible. McGiffert, something of a fixture himself as left-fielder on the Eliot House softball team for three years, is now studying history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on a Lionel de Jersey Scholarship...
...star rugger player at Rugby and Oxford, Colin Coote was a captain in the British army in Italy in 1917 when he was elected to Parliament to fill a vacancy caused by the death in action of another M.P. At 24, Coote became the youngest member of the House of Commons. But the general election of 1922, recalls Coote, "was the first time the voters really had a crack at me-and that ended my political career." Ex-M.P. Coote became a foreign correspondent and later chief editorial writer for the Times; in 1942 he moved over...
Roger Bennet '42, captain of the Rugger team in his senior year and now a student at the Business School was named as the new coach of the team at last night's meeting. Bennet who comes from Coulston Surrey in England succeeded Callahan who graduated from the Episcopal Theological Seminary last June...
...newcomers is an Englishman named Roger Bennett, a first year Business School student; another is a Chilean Law Schooler named John Cotter. Jack Thompson, a student at the Episcopal Theological School is the third, and sophomore Ken Kunhardt is the remaining untested rugger...