Word: saturdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play a game . . . which makes all the other football codes look as interesting and as fast as cricket appears to Americans. The game is known as Australian Rules Football ... In the city of Melbourne, an average of 130,000 people travel to league and association club matches every Saturday during the winter months . . . The game features the best attributes of soccer, rugby and gridiron football, and it eliminates the disadvantages of the latter in that it is only on rare occasions that anyone is hurt. Long kicks, high marks (catches) and accurate, speedy passing of the ball are the fundamental...
Coach Stuffy McInnis' pitching choice for the contest will be lefthander Barry Turner, who last pitched Saturday against Tufts, and ultimately was the winning pitcher. The erratic Turner will be given bullpen support by fireballer Ralph Hymans and Crimson mound ace Ira Godin...
There are other difficulties. The Harvard newshound faces what is probably the world's most sarcastic readership, which makes every hurried cliche the subject of many cruel barbs. A Saturday sporting event is easy, because the publication schedule of this journal allows for a leisurely and calculated write-up, but the occasion of a night hockey game can strain any man's regard for the English language...
...Saturday special luncheons will follow the annual AHC business meeting. Provost Buck, Dean David, Dean Fair of the Engineering School, and vice-Dean Livingston Hall of the Law School will speak at special group luncheons devoted to General Education, Business, Engineering, Law, and Medicine. President Conant speaks at the banquet in the evening...
...start of the wage talks in May the maids asked for a five day week. The compromise on partial Saturday service means that the maids on duty will do only as much as they are able during four hours...