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Pennsylvania and Yale, as was expected, emerged from last weekend's gridiron battles practically without mussing their parts and, with a skein of three victories against no defeats apiece, seemed certain to be on top of the Ivy League heap come the final judgement day, November...
...technique, lectures the reader gleefully in little asides on the art of pleading. Sample: "[The lawyer] must do the jury's thinking for them, yet with such tact that they are led to the belief that it is they, and not the advocate, who have unraveled the tangled skein." Stryker, who once had to ask a prosecutor what he meant by the expression "taking it on the lam," will find many of his readers in flight long before they finish For the Defense...
...proper frame of mind has anything to do with the outcome of the coming Yale basketball game, it's in the proverbial bag. The Yardling five yesterday stretched its winning skein to four straight at the Indoor Athletic Building, pummelling a hapless but game Governor Dummer Academy...
Riding the crest of a ten-game winning skein as a result of their hairbreadth 6-5 upset over Dartmouth last Saturday, the Yale hockey forces will face off against Harvard this weekend in search of their fourth Pentagonal League victory in a row. Since the beginning of their winning streak of January 15 by virtue of a 7-1 triumph over Clarkson Tech, Coach Murray Murdoch's skaters have piled up an average of 7.7 goals per game as opposed to 2.3 for their opponents...
...With a skein of five wins and no losses to their credit, the Lions' roar has already defeated to defeat every League team but the Crimson. On paper the Lions still need to cop five out of their remaining seven games for the pennant, but the money boys are solidly behind the Light Blue five built around towering center Walt Budko...