Word: soccer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came a new headmaster-a big, twinkly-eyed Episcopal clergyman named Albert Hawley Lucas. He had been a Marine private during World War I, later assistant headmaster at Pennsylvania's Episcopal Academy. He dressed in tweeds, liked to smoke pipes, played goal on the faculty soccer team. The boys at St. Albans soon found themselves calling him "Chief...
Juan U. Macgil of Lowell House and Guatemala City, Guatemala: Lowell House Committee; Student Council Committee on '48 Elections; Lowell House Dance Committee; WHRV; Freshman and Varsity Swimming; Freshman Soccer Team; House Squash Team...
...carries no advertisements and is dependent for revenue on government subsidies and an annual tax of ?2 on each set owner. Among the programs scheduled are Ascot races, plays such as King Lear (which ran over three hours and was given in two sections on consecutive evenings), symphonies, soccer football games and movies. In British pubs, Britons still prefer darts...
Because of the children, Clingman agreed to stay for a year. He organized Saturday sports-soccer, football, baseball. Other boys began coming, sons of gardeners, or "river rats" who fish for a living. The children brought their parents, helped build the congregation up to its present 210, with a healthier cross section of rich and poor...
Next day the Ferencvaros team was suspended for four weeks, its stadium closed. The official announcement spoke of "enemies of Hungarian democracy who attack our constitution through sports." Even though Budapesters boycotted all soccer games, Ferencvaros knuckled under. The team "applied to Comrade Rakosi for assistance," asked "the democratic camp of the [soccer] association to eliminate the reactionaries...