Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army team has beaten Cornell and Yale but was overwhelmed by Columbia, Springfield, and Syracuse, Tufts has fallen victim to the Crimson matmen, after the Varsity had been taken into camp...
...Springfield, Mass...
...defend their field. Officers' families and 150 stenographers were sent out of the post. Since the field has only two gates, men climbed into heavy trucks, prepared to hole through the fence in case the gates were clogged by reinforcements. Gas masks and tin hats were issued, Springfield rifles were passed out. Anti-parachute troops stood by; mechanics formed machine-gun squads. To keep enemy planes from landing, trucks and jeeps were scattered about the runways. Fire equipment was broken out and a chemical unit formed to guard against gas attack...
...birth and honor its founder, thousands of U.S. basketball teams will donate the proceeds of one game on their 1941-42 schedule to the James A. Naismith Memorial Fund. Proceeds of these "golden ball games" will be used to build a monumental gymnasium (including a Hall of Fame) in Springfield, Mass., within dribbling distance of the Y.M.C.A. where basketball was first played...
Dick Gifford, captain elect and left inside forward on the Crimson soccer team, was put on the first team of a New England Intercollegiate all-star team chosen yesterday by George M. Collins, soccer editor of the Boston Globe. Harvard placed fifth behind Springfield, Amherst. Dartmouth, and Yale in the New England Intercollegiate League from which Collins chose his all-star team...