Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facing substantially the same schedule as last year, the stickmen will meet a series of larger and more powerful oppents. Since lacrosse is a major sport in the South and since many colleges are now stressing it as a conditioner for the Army, the Crimson squad of 30 men expects to be outnumbered in almost every encounter...
...well be lost to Dick Harlow next fall, several other players on which the Crimson pigskin wizard was relying will not be showing up next full. Dave Goldthwalte, Johnny Page, Ray Guild, and Tommy Shattuck, added to these named above, will almost certainly be missing. One bright sport on the horizon is the announcement by Don Forte, next year's captain, yesterday, that be definitely will be back...
Second big college to give up intercollegiate football in recent years, N.Y.U., unlike the University of Chicago, is stepping out because of plain economic necessity. Explained Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase: "For the past two years football has been conducted at a considerable deficit and the university cannot retain the sport any further under the uncertain conditions that prevail...
Biggest indoor sport event in the U.S. is the annual tournament of the American Bowling Congress. This week, on 36 brand-new alleys set up in the State Fair Grounds Coliseum at Columbus, Ohio, the vanguard of some 30,000 contestants start rolling-singly, in pairs and five-man teams-for $260,000 in prizes. They will roll on for 72 days & nights...
Today there are 11,000 U.S. bowling alleys, representing an investment of a billion and a half dollars. At this reformed sport, America's 16,000,000 bowlers (25% women) will spend $207,000,000 this year...