Word: squads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship, which provides for a year's study at Cambridge University, England, has been won by David E. McGiffert '49 of Chicago, III. McGiffert has concentrated in history at Harvard, and was a member of the Varsity basketball squad and Chairman of the Eliot House Committee...
...Explained one Oxford high-hurdler: "We try to be as casual as possible. With us, track is for relaxation and recreation." Britain's easygoing invaders carried informality so far that their only "coach" was a slender, 20-year-old Oxford medical student, Roger Bannister, who was also the squad's captain and star miler...
...Jack Moakley what the Oxford-Cambridge team was proving in its U.S. tour: that competition can be fun and that a good athlete does not have to train to razor fineness to make a respectable showing. This week, Bannister & Co. planned to do better against a combined Harvard-Yale squad, but their day in Cambridge, Mass, would not be spoiled if they...
Saturday was Alumni Day at Soldiers Field, and the varsity baseball team lent official recognition to the affair by dropping an 8 to 5 decision to a squad of former Crimson players...
...each in the second and third. From there on it was all their game, as they were never headed. The team was largely composed of recent alumni of "Uncle Bill" Bingham's farm system--such as Wally Flynn, Jack Coppinger, and Leunie Lunder from last year's squad; Barron, Wallace, "Hoss" Hamlen, and Nick Rodis from the '47 team; sole oldster was hockey coach John Chase...