Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tonight one of the closing events of the winter season will take place, when, on the newly-waxed floor of Memorial Hall, the combined class of 1924 meets an all-star team from the world outside. The mere fact that the affair has been "fixed" will hardly make it less interesting, for when the gong sounds at the beginning of each round more than seven hundred are expected to be on hand,--not as large as the crowd at a football game, perhaps, but a good showing for so staid a place as "Mem" Hall, and one which may well...
...Cornell and Dartmouth on February 24, will run in the Meadowbrook invitation 660-yard race for the President's Cup. In this event Captain Burke will meet formidable opposition, since Hellfrich, Penn State. American national champion in the half-mile, Eby, formerly of the University of Pennsylvania and a star of the 1920 American Olympic team, Captain Campbell of Yale, and Driscoll, former Boston College Captain and national champion in the quarter-mile, are all scheduled to run in this race...
Crosby was the only star for the University and several times came within an ace of scoring on individual sports down the ice. Twice in the opening period he forced Jenkins to come out from his cage to meet him and prevent an almost certain goal. The team, as a whole, showed signs of the gruelling contests with Dartmouth and Princeton, for there was not the same speed and endurance which characterized the two preceding games...
...Yale attack with Captain Bulkley at left wing also a powerful factor in the offense. The team has been strengthened recently by the return of Turnbull, the regular right wing, who has been out of the line-up for two weeks on account of illness. O'Hearn, the star of the team, will be at right defense with Vaughan, who has recently taken Sargent's place at left defense, as his running mate. Jenkins, who has been an unusually steady performer this year, will bear the brunt of the Crimson attack at goal...
When John Barrymore returns from Europe he will return to the films as well. The Warner Brothers intend to star him, first in Deburau; then in an adaptation of Clyde Fitch's Beau Brummel...