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Crusader coach Buster Sheary started a quintet in which the smallest man was an even six feet tall. Every man on the squad was a competent rebounder, and at times the Cross was able to put up as many as five shots in a row before the Crimson got the ball...
...student admission. Al colleges where students paid admission through activity fees or coupon books, the prices ranged from $10 to $25 per entire athletic season. The average seating capacity at the stadiums of the 15 colleges averaged 38,098. Yale bad the biggest capacity, 84,000, and Hamilton the smallest...
Lowenstein is probably the smallest man ever to captain a Harvard team. He is five feet eight inches tall and weighs 151 pounds. The 21-year-old junior is also one of the leading forward passers in the East. In addition to doing almost all the punting this season, Lowenstein paced the Harvard offense by completing 61 of the 129 passes he attempted for a total of 910 yards and eight touchdowns...
...midnight of October 11-12 and the whole course of world history was going to change forever in just two hours more. Nobody quite realized that. But every man in the fleet, from the Admiral to the smallest page boy, was tensely alert . . . 'Tierra! Tierra!' bawled [the lookout on the Pinta] . . . The ship's biggest piece of artillery, a 'lombard,' had been standing, loaded and primed, ready to fire a signal the moment there was news . . . 'Bang!' went the lombard. North America had been discovered...
...machine developed by Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, cocky but cautious John Pastore succeeded McGrath as governor in 1945 when McGrath became U.S. Solicitor General, is now taking over the Senate seat McGrath gave up last year. He once told a group of foreign editors, "Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union and I am the smallest governor"; conscious of his size and his Italian extraction, he says, "I've always felt that there were two strikes against me, and that to succeed I had to do a better job than anyone else." He dresses so carefully...