Word: squash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of Chicago's Fort Dearborn project, a 150-acre slum-clearance development on the main northern approach to the Loop, city planners decided to build a memorial to Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, who achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, on a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. When an international architectural competition was launched, 355 entrants from 25 countries submitted their designs. Last week the jury awarded first prize and $5,000 to Architect Reginald Caywood Knight, 35, of M.I.T.'s department of architecture...
...squash yesterday, Ed Vaughan defeated Bill Rapp, and Dick Chute beat Ben Neilson. Finals are slated for a date after the vacation...
Charlie Ufford defeated Cal Place yesterday to win the Foster Trophy, symbolic of the University Squash Championship. Ufford won in three games, 15-6, 15-10, and 15-7, from the second man on the Crimson varsity...
Ufford was the tournament's second seeded player behind defending champion Ben Heckscher, who was forced to default in the second round because of pre-vacation tennis practice. A former varsity squash captain, Ufford is one of the country's leading players...
Winthrop's squash team did slightly better. With the points of the "A," "B," and "C" Leagues combined, the Puritans led Dunster and Kirkland for their lone league championship...