Word: soccer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unable to muster an adequate offense yesterday, the freshman soccer team was downed 2 to 0 by the University of Connecticut yearlings in a contest played at Storrs...
...varsity soccer team played its best game of the season yesterday, but that wasn't good enough to beat the national champion University of Connecticut squad. The Blue and White nipped the Crimson, 1 to 0, at Storrn, Conn., on a second-period penalty shot...
Most of the Crimson players individually played their top games so far of the season against the champions. Goalie Whoop Batachelder was busy all afternoon blocking difficult Connecticut shots. The penalty kick that got by him was hardly his fault; in soccer the goalie is almost defenseless against a direct penalty kick...
Connecticut has a habit of turning out fine soccer squads; last year's was champion of the New England League, which is generally recognized as the toughest soccer league in the country. This year, although several of its top stars are gone, Connecticut by comparative scores is about as good as Cornell and Amherst--the two colleges which have boaten the Crimson...
...Harvard coach Bruce Munro is hoping his team will be functioning at least as well as it did Saturday in the Army game. Then, he says, his charges played one period of "great soccer" and protected its lead the rest...