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Houston is the first lineman to be chosen captain since Russ Allen, a right guard, led the 1937 eleven. Prior to Allen, the last line captain was the immortal Ben Ticknor, All-American center of the 1930 team...
...years ago Harvard had two dance bands of its own. One of these played under the name of Russ Randolph, having reference to the western half of Adams House. As a matter of fact the Plympton-Bow Street area of those days was a New Orleans in microcosm, swarming with musical talent, and so it is no wonder that when the two groups merged the result was christened the Gold Coast Orchestra...
...continual light upon the huge and mighty sea." Debarking, he and his crew eventually ended up-in Moscow, where Ivan the Terrible amiably "took into his hand Master George Killings-worth's beard . . . and pleasantlie delivered it to the Metropolitane, who, seeming to bless it, ,saide in Russ, 'this is God's gift'; as indeed at that time it was ... in length five foote and two inches of assize." Martin Frobisher, pushing to the northwest,, met a less favorable reception. He rediscovered Greenland (rising "like pinnacles of steeples all covered with snow"), but the Eskimos chased...
Yardling Gene Sterrett's one-point edge over defending champion Russ Bath in the 140-pound class was one of the evening's upsets, while Joe Vera, 135-pound House title-holder, added University laurels to his crown by taking Jack Dwyor by decision...
Particularly potent are the 130-pound contenders for the University crown. Lamar pointed out, explaining that Russ Hath, who appears sporadically in local exhibition contests, and Sophomore Eugene Sterret; who sparred in the service, are two of the Strongest men in a hard-hitting class...