Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smith is one of the few University captains who was never a preparatory school star. He entered the University from Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was manager of the school basketball team. Upon entering college, he decided to transfer his activities from the managing to the playing end of the game, and he made good from the start. He was the star of his Freshman team, and he made the University five as a Sophomore...
...will lead a strong combination next year if this year's Freshman five live up to expectations and the returning members of the University squad make the improvement naturally to be expected. With himself and Slocum, 1928 star, or Jones at forwards, Leekley or Rauh at center, and Malick and probably Barbee of the Freshmen at the guards positions, Coach Wachter will start the coming season with a much rosier outlook than he faced last fall...
...Indeed, the university whose manner of encouraging her sons had so piqued the representatives of the other colleges had mighty men in her service. There was Albert ("Truck") Miller, 200-pound sprinter ; Jeff Fletcher, high-hurdle star; "Soapy" Watters, Olympic middle-distance competitor; Bill Tibbetts, sturdy two-miler. Nevertheless, Emerson Norton, Georgetowner, performed ably in two events (pole vault, running high jump) ; the Georgetown two-mile relay team broke the world's indoor record (time: 7 min., 41 6-10 sec.) ; her one-mile relay team took first place. Harvard was vanquished. Nelson B. Sherrill of Pennsylvania broke...
...Theatregoers have offered all members of the University interested in affairs of the theatre a charter membership in the club which will be organized at 3.05 this afternoon in Harvard 1. The speakers are Roland Young, star in "Beggar on Horseback", who will speak on "Audiences", and Wallace Eddinger, leading man in "Spin-Drift", who will discuss the annual scholarship which he is sponsoring for Harvard's most promising actor...
Likely candidates for first base are Wortham, Kline, and Wadsworth, all of football game. Lindley looks like a sure bet for second base, though the position is being strongly contested by Kai Kee, the Chinese star who substituted for him last spring, and Melsrea from the Freshmen. Shortstop is being disputed between Ewing, last year's regular, and Festa, who was decisred ineligible for the 1927 Freshman team in mid-season last year...