Word: ruggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong Dartmouth rugby, team downed the Crimson Saturday, 10 to 3, in the first rugger game over played at Hanover. Fifteen hundred students and their Green Key weekend guests saw the Indians score in both halves, and make the kicks-after good...
...good football player does not necessarily make a good rugger, according to Bennett. "There is not a single thing that you learn in football that you can apply to rugby," he warns. "It is more of a team game than football; there aren't any stars...
...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...