Word: stan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, after workmen had spent all night spraying 20,000 gallons of water on the run to make it smoother and faster, Brakeman Bill Casey and his U.S. fellow crewmen adjusted their helmets and inspected their 507-lb. sled. The driver was ruddy-cheeked Stan Benham, chief of the Lake Placid fire department, who turned to bobsledding four years ago because he found ski-jumping too tame. When Benham said, "All right, let's go boys," all four took their positions for the push-off. Once in motion, with feet planted in stirrups and hands clutching straps, they...
...tough Boston University team will line up at full strength against a weakened Crimson squad at 7 p.m. in the Arena tonight. Although Coach Stan Priddy's charges clubbed the Terrier pups 11 to 5 last week, an increase in B.U.'s strength will mean that the freshmen may have trouble in keeping their perfect record clean...
...wind up first in the dash. George Wade, another Yale man, took the IC4-A mile in 4:13, which will be pretty hard for anyone to beat today, although Princeton's Ronald Wittreich ought to press him. Dartmouth looks good for the cross country, with the 1948 champion, Stan Waterman, and Penn's Jeff Kirk, a member of last year's Olympic team, will probably set the pace over the hurdles...
There will be two changes in Jordan's middleweight offense. Stan Thompson stopped Tom Connors on Tuesday and will compete at 165. Connors, who wrestled at 155 against Princeton last Saturday, gives way to Rod Skinner this week...
...Kirk, and two-miler Dick Hart; Brown high jumper Dick Phillips generally gets up ever six-six; Al Holland, of Columbia, has done 1:15.3 in the 600; Princeton's Ronald Wittreich will probably press Eli George Wade in the mile; and Dartmouth has the 1948 cross country champion, Stan Waterman...