Word: ruggers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week police searched the labyrinthine cellars of the Houses of Parliament for spies, even poked through the ventilating system and set a patrol on the roof. At 2 p.m. workmen and staff employes were sent home, and soon afterward certain brawny nobles staged a regular Rugger scrum for the tiny Peers Gallery. One peer was knocked down, although the Earl of Glasgow had cautioned beforehand: "I do hope your Lordships will manage to conduct yourselves with decorum!" Last measure introduced before the session was scheduled to become secret was The Gas and Steam Vehicles Excise Bill. Too decorous...
John Harkness, last year's intercollegiate 175-pound wrestling champion, now at law school; Austin Scott, former president of the club, Phil Strong, treasurer of the Club; George Ditz, former captain of the Stanford University Rugby Club; Fred Smith, former Princeton rugger; Johnny Castle of Yale; and Paul Counihan are the other ranking forwards...
Among the star rugger backs are Dave Cowell, former Yale gridiron great, who scored against Queens Saturday; Bill Waters and Henry Kidder, also scorers in the Queens game; Bob Wesselhoeft, secretary of the Club; Henry Goff and Olf Osgood, formerly on the Princeton Rugby team...
...SCOTLAND-R. H. Bruce Lock-hart-Putnam ($3). In this nostalgic, slow-paced account of his athletic boyhood, Author Lockhart (British Agent) gives first place to relatives and Rugger, with interspersed laments on the decline of bagpipes, kilts, Scotch whiskey, dialect and nationalism, winds up with a stirring defense of schoolmasters. Concluded with this volume, Author Lockhart's autobiographical series adds little to modern letters, but makes an interesting example of Scotch frugality in living one's life twice over...
...Fifty rugger aspirants turned up last night in Eliot House at the preliminary meeting of the Rugby Club. Thirty-five signed up for the spring trip to Bermuda. Practice starts next Monday in the Old Cage at Soldiers Field...