Word: squad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...robbery at Salt Lake City two months before. Extradited to Utah and tried for first-degree murder, he stolidly maintained that he was a habitual criminal, would be better dead. The judge agreed. Utah law gave him the choice of being hanged or shot by a firing squad. "I prefer to be shot," said John Deering...
Last week in Salt Lake City's death house Gunman Deering explained that he chose a firing squad because "when I was a kid raising hell everyone told me I'd end up on the gallows, so I thought I'd fool them. Also, there's an old saying I like: 'Live by the sword and die by the sword...
When Coach Jack Carr's soccer squad coasted over Brown last Saturday by a 2-1 count, it was a rejuvenated Crimson outfit once again on the march, this time in the last lap of their championship sprint. With a record untarnished except for a 3-3 tie with the Tigers, Captain Johnson and his versatile booting battalion have only Yale to trample under foot before assuming the crown of the New England League...
Harlow made the first promotion from the Junior Varsity to the Varsity yesterday since the reserve squad was formed. Bart Kelly '40 was the advancement. He has been playing regularly on the Jayvees as end for two years. He is the brother of the famous Harvard captain of 1935, Shaun Kelly...
Forty-four swimmers are now reporting daily to Coach Hal Ulen for conditioning exercises and short pool workouts, in preparation for one of the toughest seasons ever experienced by a Crimson tank squad...