Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because it forbids such professional monkeyshines as sadistic holds and Promethean agonies, intercollegiate wrestling is generally considered about as dull as sport can get. Not so in the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., home of wrestling conscious Lehigh, where the great grunt-&-groan is taken as seriously as football. Last week 800 Bethlehemites-town & gown alike-trekked 120 miles to New Haven, Conn, to see Lehigh's wrestlers compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships...
...Winter Champions Sport Winner Won Lost Basketball Lowell 12 3 Squash Adams 44 16 Swimming Lowell 7 0 Wrestling Winthrop 16 points Volleyball season unfinished Fencing tournament next week
After the traditional time lag, basketball's nation-wide growth the popularity are finally being reflected at Harvard. The latest in a series of moves designed to build New England's own game into the College's third-ranking major sport came last week with Coach Bill Barclay's announcement that basketball's first spring practice would begin shortly after the season's close. These sessions will be by invitation only, to compete as little as possible with the spring talent search conducted by Harlow and the spring sports. None the less, they were hailed by Barclay as a welcome...
...came from. There had also been publicized rookies who fared better: 1926's Mel Ott, 1937's Bobby Feller and 1936's Joe Di-Maggio. Drawls Clint Hartung: "I've made no promises and I've got nothing to live up to. Those sport writers will probably forget about me after I strike out a few times...
...Harvard's first victory over the Elis in any major sport since September, and it would have provided script material for Burt L. Standish, creator of the Frank Merriwell series--except that Merriwell came from Yale...