Word: soccer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the two types are basically alike the English version is a combination of both soccer and football and prohibits many features of the American game...
Munro, who came from Trinity last fall to coach soccer and lacrosse, had been sweating out the indoor practice season with one eye on the 52-odd varsity and freshmen tryouts and the other eye on the barometer, waiting for a chance to get his hopefuls outdoors, where men are gazelles and there aren't any balls bouncing off the roof onto one's head...
Last-Wednesday the Weather Bureau and the H.A.A. saw fit to cooperate and Munro led his band forth into the March gales to practice on the Busy School soccer field, bounded on the side by a sacred bit of yet-undried turf--the main part of the field--and on the other by a late spring artificial lake...
...paper, Munro has a top-notch team. Fourteen lettermen and a large contingent from last year's strong freshmen team must add up to something, especially with an All-American lacrosse player, and successful soccer coach, at their head, But this is on paper and Munro has seen very little of the team...
Jonathan Sliverstone of Winthrop House and Hartford, Connecticut; NSA Delegate. Donald B. Louria of Winthrop House and Brooklyn, New York: Varsity Wrestling Captain, Varsity Soccer, Varsity Lacrosse, Undergraduate Athletic Committee...